My experiences and impressions as a participant in nursing courses at ISE Sprach- und Berufsbildungszentrum GmbH, and my experiences from working as a nursing assistant in a retirement home.
Dealing with people with dementia and disabilities – an important aspect!
It's always amazing what people with dementia and disabled people can do quietly. I experience this every day in my work in a retirement home.
I already have a year of nursing experience and have noticed that emotional care and individual care for this group of people are usually neglected in the facilities. For this reason, I wanted to specialize in this area.
Return to ISE
By chance, in April of this year, I became aware of a course for caring for people with dementia and the disabled, which was offered by the ISE Sprach- und Berufsbildungszentrum GmbH from May 2009 to August 2009, and I registered there immediately. I already knew some of the teachers from my nursing course (2007) and was therefore confident that I would come away from this course with valuable specialist knowledge. The in-depth internships offered in this course gave me further insight into working with seniors and I soon knew that this would be the right path for me.
In practice
Since mid-August this year I have been working in a nursing facility in Sulzbach-Rosenberg and am passionate about it. It is not always easy to motivate residents suffering from dementia to work, but the gratitude of the seniors for this kind of attention and the often small successes that are achieved in the process always reward you for this work.
Our range of activities ranges from fall prevention, memory training, creative design, housekeeping activities, crafts, themed parties, to small excursions and is always popular. “We”, who are already working in the care and employment of people with dementia and the disabled, must do “pioneering work” and offer individual care through careful study of the individual biographies of the residents.
Because only when the soul receives attention is life “worth living”!
Lydia Haberkorn