A book about Italy and Ethiopia, about colonialism and Rome.
Nursing services should work together more
“The number of people getting older is increasing – we will need a high level of hospice and palliative care,” explains Bolze. “And we will never be able to say: this is done, we have reached our goal.” It is important that networks are established and function well: Outpatient care services, specialized teams for palliative care, hospices, etc. – they all have to work together. Old people’s homes in particular need a close connection to the palliative networks. “Because home is there for the resident and that’s where he should be able to die.”
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According to Jünger, financial constraints and disincentives in the health system, such as inappropriate interventions or therapies, contribute significantly to the fact that people are deprived of an appropriate death. “It cannot be that the mammon dictates morality – or the ethical concept of patient rights and human dignity,” she said. “We have to say: We are not doing this for reasons of patient safety and patient dignity.”
Sources used: dpa news agency
Dozens of former “wolf children” from Lithuania have applied for compensation in Germany. Their fate after the end of the Second World War has largely been forgotten.
In the post-war period, thousands of German war orphans wandered through Lithuania as so-called wolf children. Of the few survivors in the Baltic state, at least 50 have applied to the Federal Administration Office for compensation for forced laborers. This was announced by the chairwoman of the Edelweiss Association, Luise Kazukauskiene, in Vilnius.
Before the deadline at the end of the year, all 51 members of the association filed claims. “I didn’t want to apply at all, but I was encouraged by Germany and other people, and so I did. As far as I know, everyone did it,” said the chairwoman of the Edelweiss Association, Luise Kazukauskiene, according to the Lithuanian media.
In the turmoil at the end of the war in East Prussia a good 70 years ago, thousands of children lost contact with their parents or relatives and wandered through neighboring Lithuania, which was then under Soviet rule. It was only in the course of the resettlement of the remaining German population that the “wolf children” were able to leave; others were accepted into Lithuanian families and lived under a false identity. To this day, many fates are still unclear.
“No Restoration of Justice”
The “wolf children” were long disregarded by the German government. Only at the end of 2015 did the German Bundestag decide on financial compensation for German forced laborers, which even the few former war orphans can apply for – they are entitled to a one-off payment of 2500 euros. To do this, they have to prove that they had to do forced labor.
“Everything is far too late, it is only a symbolic gesture, not a restoration of justice,” said Kazukauskiene, who was born in East Prussia and came to Lithuania after the end of the war. Many of those affected did not live long enough to receive compensation. Proving evidence of their experience is also a difficult task for the now very old “wolf children”.
According to the Society for Threatened Peoples, which has been campaigning for compensation payments for a long time, around 55 “wolf children” still live in Lithuania. In Germany there are still a few hundred.
Source: – dpa news agency
Owen is ten years old and suffers from Schwartz-Jambel syndrome, a very rare disease of which only 100 cases have been documented worldwide since it became known in 1962. He had almost given up on himself. But then the dog Haatchi came into his life.
“The first time I saw the dog in a photo, it really took my breath away,” recalls Owen’s stepmother, Colleen. The British dog trainer immediately felt that there was something very special about this animal, that this dog was the right one for her and her family.
It was love at first sight
The otherwise very down-to-earth woman describes the first encounter between Haatchi and Owen as “electrifying and almost spiritual – the atmosphere in the room changed from one moment to the next.” Haatchi put his big head on Owen’s lap and looked at him for a long time – as if he wanted to explore it. From that moment on, the dog and child were a unit, developed their own communication, and immediately bonded. “It was like they were reunited, like two old friends who met,” says Colleen.
“Haatchi has changed my whole life,” says Owen. The dog has made the little boy much more open and happy. “He’s taking care of me and he’s very special.”
The brave Haatchi is a role model for Owen
One can only guess, but fate may unite the two. Because not only Owen has to fight every day, Haatchi also has to carry his package. The Anatolian Shepherd Dog was tied to the railroad track of a busy train line with incredible cruelty. He survived the collision with a train, but lost a hind leg in the process. It was a long time before he could come to terms with it.
But the boy, nicknamed Little B., and his dog help each other and let the other motivate them. “When Owen saw how well Haatchi ate his food and medicine, he decided to be just as brave,” said the Daily Telegraph journalist Wendy Holden in her book “Real Friends”. “Owen had seen how stoically the dog had endured pain and frustration over the past few weeks and took him as a role model.”
It was good for the boy that someone else in the family needed medical attention. The two comfort each other. Because both are in pain. Always.
Those affected often live in isolation
Schwartz-Jambel syndrome is extremely rare and, moreover, has very different degrees of development among those affected. As a result, there are hardly any self-help groups and those affected usually remain isolated with their families. Owen’s muscles are constantly on alert, tense like a bodybuilder’s. This makes his face look pinched. The stature is short. The force that muscles exert on bones and joints gradually destroys them.
Owen relies on a wheelchair to move. “He hated being gawked at and the more it happened, the more he tried to hide,” recalls his father, Will. As soon as his family left the house with him, the boy doubled over. He found the attention he attracted to be very negative, built a wall around himself.
Therapy dog Haatchi gives Owen confidence
Today it is Haatchi that people are reacting to. “For the first time in his young life, Owen saw people stare at him not because he was disabled, but because he had a ‘cool’ dog.” People seemed to look differently at Owen now. “As if the handicapped dog at his side made him much more approachable.”
Kim, Owen’s mother, remembers that Owen only talked about the dog and seemed to get more and more alive. Owen never tires of telling Haatchi’s story and showing off a bit. “Again and again he makes old women shed a few tears of emotion,” smiles his father, who is very happy that Haatchi’s will to live and his perseverance have also brought Owen’s strength back.
An unbeatable team
The three-legged dog Haatchi. (Source: Verlagsgruppe Droemer Knaur)
The spontaneous decision of his family to adopt a disabled dog in addition to all the stresses has proven to be the right one. “After experiencing the worst in humans, Haatchi is now bringing out the best,” said Colleen. “Little B. was like a bud that had been waiting for Haatchi’s light and love to let it blossom. Up until that moment he was in the world, but not in it. Only a small part of him was visible and known . “
Haatchi appears to Will and Colleen as “if he were human in the body of a dog. He just seems to understand everything.” Haatchi is now a trained therapy dog. He brings joy into the lives of others as well. But there is one thing he insists on: waiting for his little friend every day after school.
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Dadaab was once the largest refugee camp in the world. In a chic district of Hamburg, the carefree life bursts when both parents lose their jobs. And an Italian woman is overtaken by her country’s dark, colonial past. Our book tips for autumn.
The days are getting shorter, the reading time is getting longer. Again, novels and non-fiction books have been selected for you that are exciting, tragic, or both. Written with humor or factual, but always excellent. That have something to do with our living environment in one way or another, even if we don’t always see it the same way at first glance. Reading remarkable books also means putting yourself in other people’s shoes. Understand so many lives.
Kristine Bilkau – The lucky ones
You are happy, the three. Isabell, Georg and their little son Matti. You live in one of the most beautiful districts of Hamburg. Pastel colored houses, decorated with stucco. Delicatessen shops and lots of cafés where you can meet like-minded people. The residents of the district have interesting jobs, eat organic food, and swim laps in the outdoor pool.
Isabell is a cellist in a theater orchestra. When she returned there after parental leave, chronically overtired from toddler nights, with the claim to do everything perfectly, her hand began to tremble while playing. At first imperceptibly, then unmistakably. She strokes the bow rigidly, the notes sound hollow. As her arm and shoulder hurt more and more, she took sick leave. A few months later, her contract is not renewed. Georg: Journalist for a respected newspaper. He is like so many in his branch. Newspaper sold, downsizing. Now he hangs up his laundry at home and turns off the lamp to save electricity. He applies as a local reporter in the flat country.
A psychological portrait
Speechlessness, silent reproaches. Isabel’s refusal to acknowledge reality: she buys chestnut spreads and a designer dress, after all she gets one year of ALG 1. She doesn’t talk about her trembling hands. She messes up a prelude at the State Opera, and flees five minutes before the next. What is it like when you fall through the grid of our performance society? There is a ghost at stake – the fear of not being able to do it at some point: to keep up with the enormous speed, the pressure, and also with your own demands on yourself and the world.
Kristine Bilkau creates the psychological portrait of a couple that represents an entire generation of our society. There is a subtle irony in their descriptions when a meadow bouquet costs 35 euros in the quarter in question. The author very gently shows a path that both of them can go. That’s nice and reassured. Because with every page it becomes clearer to the reader that it could very quickly turn out to be the same in his urban hipster life.
What grabbed me about the book: The beautiful Hamburg quarter, where appearance and reality are so close together. How hard it is to show weakness.