ACPD News
Higher minimum wages for workers in the care of the elderly in Germany
On 28 January 2020, the Nursing Commission agreed on higher minimum wages for caretaking personnel in the elderly care: From 1 July 2020, the minimum wages for care assistants in western and eastern parts of Germany will rise to 12.55 euros per hour, which will happen in four separate steps. The adjustment of the regionally different minimum nursing care wages then will be finally completed by 1 September 2021. In addition, for the first time the care commission has set a particular minimum care wage for qualified nursing assistants and for nursing specialists. Nursing assistants: From 1 April 2021, a minimum wage of 12.20 euros per hour will be introduced for qualified nursing assistants in the east and 12.50 euros per hour in the west. The east-west alignment is to be completed on 1...
How do deaf people deal with obligatory mouth masks?
For people for whom lip-reading is the only means of understanding other people, mouth masks cause problems. For many deaf people or people with severely impaired hearing, lip-reading is, in addition to sign language, an important means of communication, especially if the person they are talking to does not speak sign language. The Federal Guild of Hearing Acousticians KdöR reports: Social distancing and wearing a mouth and nose protection mask ensures safety and protection against infection in pandemic times. However, this is an additional challenge for people with hearing loss. Since the masks are compulsory, it has become even more difficult for hearing impaired people to understand other people. This is because the mouth/nose protection masks, which are often mandatory and have...
With sign language as her mother tongue Sophia Reimer can make particularly good use of her strengths in geriatric care
Kiel | There are about 80,000 deaf people living in Germany. One of them is 24-year-old Sophia Reimer, who has been looking after a residential group of dementia patients in the AWO Servicehaus am Wohld in Kiel for a year. In the only school for the deaf in Germany in Rendsburg, she was trained as a geriatric nurse in a one-year course. (Article from SHZ, 01.01.2020; Margret Kiosz) Ms. Reimers, I have never conducted an interview with someone who cannot hear. Do you notice my insecurity? A little. But I can read lips quite well, and what I don't understand, we do with a pad and pencil. Unfortunately, the sign language interpreter cancelled, that's the best way to go. Sign language is my mother tongue. That's how my mother spoke to me, she was also deaf. That's rather rare, because...
Transnational Project Meeting online
Due to the Corona pandemic and changing travel regulations, the 2nd Transnational Project Meeting had to be spontaneously transformed into an online-event, organized and translated by the project partner Utenos Kolegija (Utena, Lithuania). The TPM consisted of two online-meetings with external stakeholders and a project management conference for the partners to discuss the following steps of the project activities. During the online-meeting the partners learnt the Lithuanian Deaf Association, represented by its President, Mr. Kęstutis Vaišnora, who was supported by two sign language interpreters. In the second online-Meeting the invited director of Utena Sv. Klara hospice and lecturer at UC, dr. Žaneta Valiuliene, answered the questions of the...
All-in-one messing device can also be helpful for deaf and hard of hearing nurses
"www.pflegen-online.de" reports on a new measuring device that measures and records pulse, blood pressure, temperature and oxygen saturation. The device for measuring vital data makes pens as well as tablets at the bedside unnecessary. This new device „Connex-Spot-7500 Monitor“ (CSM 7500) weighs about 4kg and can be pushed around the room on rollers. It has a scanner that captures the patient's identity via their wristband or the code at the foot of the bed and can assign the vital signs to individual patients - or better: their electronic files. The recorded data can thus be sent via Wlan directly to the digital patient file. Manual notes and subsequent recording in the ward computer are thus no longer necessary. Similar to the laboratory values, the vital data are immediately...
The new project on the employability of deaf and hard of hearing
While in some countries deaf and hearing impaired people make a successful career and participate in social life, in other countries, especially in South Eastern Europe, there are hardly any opportunities for social and professional integration. Employment opportunities here are often limited to low-skilled vacancies (or sometimes even no-show jobs) and therefore financially and content-wise unattractive. Due to this fact and based on the various experiences and backgrounds of the partnership in the field of inclusion and employment of people with disabilities, in particular, INTAMT Academy in cooperation with its partners (six organizations from five countries) started the 𝗔𝗖𝗣𝗗 (𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗳) project, working on the clarification of the learning...
