by Margo Stolzenberg | Dec 8, 2020 | Main
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...
by Margo Stolzenberg | Nov 12, 2020 | Main
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...
by Margo Stolzenberg | Oct 28, 2020 | Main
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...
by Margo Stolzenberg | Jun 9, 2020 | Main
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...
