In the care of the elderly, he is skeptical of the employment model of caring relatives that his red predecessor Birgit Gerstorfer is aiming for and wants to leave it at a pilot test for relatives of people with disabilities.
He took over the office that Hattmannsdorfer invited to his inaugural press conference on Wednesday from the retired FPÖ regional councilor Wolfgang Klinger – except for “three cans of expired lemonade” it was empty. Responsibilities come largely from Gerstorfer (social affairs) and the Green Provincial Councilor Stefan Kaineder (integration), and Hattmannsdorf has also received youth agendas.
During the election campaign, the ÖVP – with the Neo-Landesrat as campaign manager – took a hard edge when it came to integration. They wanted to check which state subsidies could be linked to knowledge of German, so the announcement. In his own area, he can imagine that “teaching the German language will be a yardstick” for promoting integration – for example, benefits will be linked to whether clubs offer German courses. Hattmannsdorfer did not want to answer yet which services from other departments could be linked to the language aspect; that will be examined first. It is important to achieve a steering effect in this way. “Subsidies in the nursing or health sector are completely unsuitable for this,” he emphasized.
Care should become more attractive
In nursing, he focused on making the job more attractive, because an additional 1,600 workers will be needed by 2025. Money is only one aspect among many, Hattmannsdorfer wants above all to improve the training and working conditions – for example with scholarships, the expansion of nursing training at agricultural technical and federal schools, the implementation of the nursing apprenticeship and an organizational relief of the employees Documentation up to housekeeping.
An expansion of mobile care and more offers for day and short-term care should relieve caregiving relatives. The new regional councilor in geriatric care is skeptical of an employment model for this group, but it intends to continue the pilot project for relatives of people with disabilities started by its predecessor. From 2022 to 2025, 100 additional living spaces are to be created every year for people with disabilities. A dementia strategy is also being planned. At the federal level, Hattmannsdorfer wants to put pressure on the care reform.
Source From: Nachrichten
