Six survivors of German concentration camps and hiding hitting end of this year through cuts lost their package of care. Informal care is not an option for the nineties. “Their family has been massacred.”
For residents in nursing homes, where people live who receive lighter care, there is however a transitional arrangement. Nursing places are abolished, but who has lived, may continue until the end. In Mr. Fish house six people soon fall by the wayside. In their aanleunappartementen they receive additional assistance from the neighboring Jewish nursing home. Which includes hot food, domestic help, care and light activities. Paid from a so-called VPT, a Full Package Home. This allows seniors to live independently despite their flaws. Currently only care for milder cases, levels 1 to 3, abolished. Van den Bergh expected to follow the heavier care packages in the future. ,, In our house it goes to another fifteen people. ” The director sees those people will soon end up in a nursing home because they do not stay upright without support. It is therefore such a foolish decision of the government, she says. ,, A place in a nursing home costs the state 6,000 euros per month. The VPT package but an eighth of that amount. I find it incomprehensible. To get more money, they can better increase their own contribution to the nursing home for wealthy people. Now everyone pays a maximum of 2300 euros, while some people may pay 4,000 euros. “
Lynn Wallis (92) still looks spry, but her gait betrays that she is no longer the youngest. Wallis, like many Jewish inmates in the Hague Mr. Fisherman’s House, marked by life. ,, She has neither child crow, ” said Noor van den Bergh, director of the Jewish nursing home – one of two in the Netherlands. ,, And there are more. “
Wallis’s story is chilling. She was 2 years in the notorious Block 10 in Auschwitz. Here the Germans abused the prisoners to carry out horrific medical experiments. Wallis came out alive. She and a brother being the only survivors of their family. ,, They were brought to Sobibor (the death camp in Poland, ed.). My brother had married a non-Jewish. His salvation. ”
experiments
In Israel she met her second husband, a violinist. They are happy together, but there is also a great sadness, Lynn can not have children. ,, It was inside devastated by the experiments. They are a device went inside and have injected fluids. “She stops: ,, I can still talk tough about it. ”
The couple met 14 years ago in Mr. Fisher House live. Her husband had Alzheimer’s and died 3,5 years ago. ,, We have been married 62 years, but he knew nothing more. “” For the second time in her life, she has no one but her sheltered accommodation in the Jewish nursing home in the leafy, upmarket Benoordenhout they feel themselves safe . ,, The care is good and the staff is always very good. ”
Fierce
But then came the letter and phone calls. That care stops. 31 December. A slap in the face of a woman who had lost so much. ,, My first reaction was: I hope I do not make it. That’s what I told the lady on the phone. ”
Care Center Director Van den Bergh is fierce. ,, Whether I worry? That is cautiously expressed. These are very vulnerable people. All of them have been in a camp or in hiding. Often they survived as the only and if they have children, are in America or Israel. “
Broken Murder
care, the solution devised by the rich, she does not have to come to this group. ,, Their family has been massacred. They laugh at me. ” Van den Bergh understands that there needs to be cut. ,, But why do these people off this yet? With new residents can make other arrangements, but these people sometimes have for 10 years not home cooked. And then such a woman after a decade must again Blokker for new pots and pans. “
Self-pay meals is not an option for everyone, Van den Bergh know. ,, It costs 10 euros per day. Then you are on 300 euros a month. “” Help everything Several years ago, Wallis crashed in the bathroom. She got a big concussion on. Since that day she dares not only to shower. ,, Where can I get help. And actually I get help with everything. “” How to do that after 31 December, she does not know. ,, I think it’s terrible, ” she repeats. ,, Terrible. ”
bad news
The house is now for her to calculate whether she can survive on her pension if she addition to the rent will pay for care themselves. Five residents will soon get the same bad news. Van den Bergh: ,, I have to tell them the protection which I originally gave them redundant. They lose everything. ”
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