Welcome to our Häuser zum Leben! - Häuser zum Leben (2024)

Our day care service provides assistance with everyday life – alone or in a group. We offer: gardening, dancing, theatre, memory training and much more. Our aim is to promote your independence, mental and physical fitness, as well as your emotional wellbeing, for as long as possible. Our day care service is available for up to five hours a day from Monday to Friday.

In all of our Häuser zum Leben, we care for people with dementia-type illnesses. We support people with dementia and enable a structured daily routine of activities within a community. Capabilities are encouraged and new things can be learned. Through meaningful tasks and activities self-competence is strengthened and quality of life is improved. This helps to maintain the independence needed for living alone.

In certain homes, we offer assisted living specifically for older people with socio-psychiatric needs. The focus is on supporting your independence and self-determination, as well as providing assistance with meaningful social integration tasks and activities. This specific care by specially trained staff takes place in groups of no more than 14 people. Our service ranges from basic care, through needs-based medical assistance, to emotional support as part of a structured, individual daily and weekly schedule.

In certain homes, we offer assisted living specifically for older people with disabilities. The daily schedules are structured and organised together with the cognitively and/or physically impaired residents, thereby enabling them to lead a normal everyday life in their own apartments. Specially trained, experienced staff provide dedicated, professional support according to residents’ needs.

In certain homes there are support centres for people with dementia. These provide disoriented residents in need of out-patient care with the highest possible quality of life and maximum freedom in an appropriate setting. Tried and tested concepts are used, such as Naomi Feil’s Validation therapy, basal stimulation and aromatherapy. This sophisticated range of treatments makes it possible to recognise wishes and needs and promote existing skills. Admission is short-term and only for the purpose of stabilisation.

Retirees are supported to regain their mobility following a fall or as a result of illness, in order to enable them to return to their own apartment. This includes reinforcing and restoring everyday skills and learning to use mobility aids independently. All our medical and nursing care is provided by inter-disciplinary teams, consisting of doctors, occupational and physiotherapists, psychologists, social workers and nurses.

The in-patient hospice at our Döbling home is designed for terminally ill patients over the age of 18 who are suffering from complex symptoms that require a high level of nursing, medical and psycho-social care. Terminally ill patients, along with their families and relatives, receive all types of care from a multitude of professionals. The focus is on maintaining and promoting patients’ quality of life. They should be able to lead a self-determined, dignified life until the very end.

Are you temporarily unable to use your home? Due to your state of health do you temporarily need more intensive support or care that cannot take place in your home? Our service ‘temporary assisted living’ enables retirees in need of care or support to take advantage of all services that we offer our residents. With approval for funding from the Vienna Social Fund there is the possibility to live in a furnished Haus zum Leben for up to 92 days a year.

Our Häuser zum Leben offer a special service for families and relatives who need short-term support to care for their loved ones due to holidays, illness or lack of time. Depending on the level of care required, loved ones are looked after as part of our ‘assisted living’ service or in an inpatient setting. With this offer, which is subsidised by the Vienna Social Fund, there is the possibility to request up to 35 days of support a year in one of our homes.