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

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

Our enhanced day-care service provides a supervised, structured daily schedule in all our homes. Your existing skills are challenged and fostered on a daily basis and you can even learn new ones. Meaningful everyday tasks and activities reinforce your self-competence and improve your quality of life. This delays and/or prevents the need for in-patient care.

In certain homes we offer assisted living specifically for older people with socio-psychiatric needs. The focus is on supporting residents’ independence and self-determination, as well as providing assistance with meaningful tasks, social integration and activities. This specific care is carried out by specially trained staff and takes place in groups of maximum 14 people. This offer ranges from basic care and needs-based medical assistance to mental stabilisation as part of a structured, individual daily and weekly schedule.

In Haus Mariahilf and Haus Neubau, we provide assisted living specifically for older people with disabilities. Cognitively and/or physically impaired residents are involved in structuring and organising their daily schedules, thus 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 we offer support centres for people with dementia. These support centres provide an appropriate environment for mobile yet disoriented residents and offer them the highest possible quality of life and maximum level of freedom. Tried and tested concepts are used such as Naomi Feil Validation therapy, basal stimulation and aromatherapy. The collected biografy makes it possible to recognise wishes and needs and to foster existing ressorces.

Seniors are encouraged to regain their mobility following a fall or as a result of illness so they can return to their own apartments. This includes reinforcing and restoring everyday skills and learning to use mobility aids independently. All our medical and nursing care is provided by interdisciplinary teams, consisting of doctors, occupational and physiotherapists, psychologists, social workers and nurses.

The in-patient hospice at Haus Döbling 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 psychosocial care. Terminally ill patients and their families receive mulitprofessional and holistic care. The focus is on maintaining and fostering the patients’ quality of life-, and allowing them to lead a self-determined, dignified life until the very end.

Our short-term respite-care service is for carers who need some time for themselves. We offer short-term, temporary assisted living for people over the age of 60, who are in need of care. This is a specific service for family members who need short-term support due to holidays, illness or a sudden lack of time. This service is funded by Fonds Soziales Wien and can be used for a maximum of five weeks per year.

Our temporary respite-care service is for carers who would like to take a break and are looking for temporary care and support for their loved one. We provide a furnished apartment in one of our Häuser zum Leben for seniors in need of care and support. They will receive access to the same services as our permanent residents, including five meals a day, for up to 92 days per year. Condition for funding: out-patient care cannot be provided at home.