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.Assistance in Austria
How live persones with different disabilities in Austria? Freak-Radio has interviewed two women and two men wanting to find out what they think about their lives.
Moderation: Welcome to Freak-Radio, an radio editorial board working in Vienna. On the microphone, Bernhard Hruska says welcome.
Today we explore the question of how persons with disability are living in Austria.
Whilst twenty years ago most persons with disability either had to live in nursing homes or were cared for by their families, a lot has changed especially with the introduction of the so-called allowance for nursing care.
The allowance for nursing care is not the only social service and by no means covers the total need for support ? it has not been adjusted to inflation for over ten years ? nonetheless it has facilitated for the first time that persons with disability can make some independent decision on what this money should be spent for, even if this independent decision is still rather the exception than the rule in Austria.
In this programme we want to introduce four persons, living very different lives.
Peter Singer works at university and lives at home. Since the death of his mother he is dependent on home nursing assisting him twice daily in important affairs.
Announcer: Dr. Peter Singer is 58 years old. He lives in a modern bloc of flats on the outskirts. He also has a small garden, right next to the flat. He uses it for recreation.
Peter studied journalism, pedagogics and special and remedial pedagogics.
Peter Singer lives with the support of home nursing. Mondays to Fridays it is usually the same person. The home nurse does the normal cleaning of the flat, the shopping and prepares the meals.
Peter Singer can?t eat warm food by himself, thus at lunchtime he is fed by his home nurse.
In the morning the home nurse comes for ¾ hour, at the weekends for half an hour.
Then she also helps Peter Singer with the care of the body.
Peter Singer: As regards the care of the body, I must admit that I like being helped, not because of laziness, but because I have weakened and thus I like getting support.
For time efficiency, I get into the bath myself, so that my home nurse comes. She helps me wash my back and makes breakfast in the meantime.
At lunchtime, the home nurse stays for one and a half hours Mondays to Fridays, at the weekends for three quarter of an hour. ? The cold dinner for Peter is prepared at lunch.
Even when he is ill, two appointments a day with the home nurse are sufficient.
