Assistance for everyday life
List of topics
- From this chapter, select …
- Einleitung
- Full in-patient and partial ambulatory offers
- Psychiatric hospitals and psychiatric departments in a general hospital
- Day-care clinics
- Ambulatory offers for help
- Institutional out-patient psychiatric clinics
- The general practitioner
- Neurologists or psychiatrists in private practice
- Psychologists and psychotherapists in private practice
- Day-care centres
- Crisis centres and emergency services
- Psychosocial services (PSS)
- Home health care and health-care services
- Rehabilitative and living facilities
- Rehabilitationseinrichtungen für Psychisch Kranke und Behinderte
- Übergangseinrichtungen
- Assisted living
- Occupational rehabilitation
- Occupational development and rehabilitation centres
- Occupational training centres (OTC)
- Sheltered workshops (SW)
- Integration organisations and other possibilities to make additional earnings
- Other helpful services
- Self-help groups
- Psychosis seminaries
Ambulatory offers for help
Day-care centres
Behind the idea of a "day-care centre", there are different modes of care offered for individuals with psychological illnesses. In part, they are also associated with information centres or with assisted living facilities that are associated with a sociopsychiatric centre, in which the patients are cared for. In contrast to day-care hospitals, these are not conducted by medical personnel and are not financed by the health insurance companies.
Depending on the individual day-care centre, the offers extend from open plans to therapeutic rehabilitation programmes. The offer, for instance, is designed for persons
- who are still unable or no longer able to work or to take part in an activity similar to work, and who do not consider themselves to be sufficiently occupied through their domestic activities and the actions they perform as a part of their recreational activities,
- who require sufficiently fulfilling daily occupational activities to suit their needs and capabilities, eventually only for a few hours and, as far as possible, outside of their living quarters or
- who are looking for a psychotherapeutic and occupational therapeutic treatment.
Because of the different offers from various day-care centres, it is advisable to obtain detailed information beforehand and to take advantage of assistance when applying.
