Person
Wishes, abilities, resources, burdens, limits and self-determination.
ABeA · Staying at home
Staying at home.
When life changes, home does not have to change automatically.
Together with people and their relatives, ABeA looks at what is needed so that a self-determined life in one’s own home can keep working for as long as possible – with professional care knowledge, independently, and open to useful technical solutions.
ABeA begins at the moment the question appears: “Can this still work at home?” The first question is not which care home might be suitable, but: What would need to change so that life in one’s own home can continue?
Living at home with self-determination, for as long as possible.
ABeA directs this offer to private individuals in their own homes, and to relatives and other people close to them. Care facilities are not the primary audience. The person in their own home is at the centre.
A move should not become necessary because possibilities at home were not recognised, or were not connected with one another.
Staying at home is not a goal at any price. If care at home is no longer safe or sustainable even with support, that transition is considered together as well.
The ABeA principle
Person, place, cycle and network become a transition.
Place
The actual home and the immediate surroundings. ABeA looks at everyday life where it takes place.
Cycle
Getting up, personal care, meals, medication, shopping, mobility, sleep, safety, appointments, communication and social contact. Where do things break?
Network
Relatives, neighbours, care and support services, doctors, therapies, the long-term care insurance fund, aids, home adaptation and suitable assistive technology.
Transition
Possibilities become a workable everyday solution, tried out, adjusted, and then handed on into a support network that can carry itself as far as possible.
How ABeA works
Look at home
A home visit and a professional care view of the real living situation, wishes, resources, difficulties and support that is already there.
Recognise possibilities
Identify changes in care, support, home adaptation, aids, assistive technology, social support and organisation.
Connect possibilities
Connect entitlements, funding bodies, specialist services, relatives and providers into a useful support network.
Try the change
Introduce solutions on a manageable scale and watch them in real everyday life.
Look at home again
Check whether everyday life, safety, independence and relief have actually improved. Adjust if needed.
Technology
What helps this person in this home in this everyday life?
Technology is a tool, not an end in itself. Care 4.0 is not a separate main product. It is a competence within ABeA · Staying at home.
Depending on the situation, a home emergency call, fall prevention and detection, automatic lighting, reminder and medication solutions, communication systems, smart-home functions or other assistive technologies may be relevant. ABeA stays independent and does not automatically sell particular products.
ABeA’s role
ABeA is not a home-care service, not a medical supply shop and not a seller of particular technology. ABeA looks at and organises the interplay between the person, the home, everyday life, relatives, professional help, funding bodies and suitable technology.
Existing statutory services and specialist agencies should be used.
Are you worried about someone?
ABeA is especially there when many separate services are involved, but nobody brings the whole situation together. The aim is to turn separate possibilities into a support network that works.