Waking coma rehab phase F
(no ventilation)
Waking coma rehab phase F
(no ventilation)
Fourteen care places for people in persistent vegetative state
Our GFO Center Dinslaken - Living, Care & Wake Coma St. Franziskus offers care places for people with severe and most severe craniocerebral damage and wake coma of rehabilitation phase F (no ventilation).
The 14 single rooms of the vegetative state area are located on one level and are mainly equipped with tandem bathrooms. A recreation room, the nursing and therapy bathroom and the nurses' station are attached.
Therapeutic units are possible in the rooms, but also in various other rooms. Extensive therapeutic-rehabilitative aids are available. This enables us to respond individually to the most varied requirements of these residents.
In addition to the services of the social services, the following nursing-therapeutic offers are available for these residents:
- Speech therapy / occupational therapy / physiotherapy
- basal stimulation
- Snoezelen
- Therapeutic care according to Bobath
- Sound therapy and music therapy
- Aromatherapy
We build bridges into social life for people with severe and most severe brain damage and vegetative state
The use of the term "vegetative state" is neither unambiguous nor uncontroversial. Even if the affected group of people is increasingly described in the literature as residents of neurological phase F, the term "vegetative state" in our view most closely reflects the attitude that we represent: that the affected persons are in a state in which the residents in a vegetative state can still perceive and feel many things.
From reports of formerly affected people in a vegetative state and based on the latest medical research, we know, for example, that impressions from the environment are also taken in a vegetative state, even if they are not processed and reacted to in a form recognizable to the environment.
Our attitude towards these residents also reflects a fundamental question of ethical and Christian responsibility - towards fellow human beings in a vegetative state, who remain fellow human beings even when they can no longer participate in life in the usual way.
We are the contact point for the area of vegetative state in the Lower Rhine region. We subscribe to the newer relational medical approach, which describes people in a vegetative state not as deficient, but as different.
It is important to recognize this difference with its possibilities and, based on this, to offer the affected people as "complete" a life as possible and thus to ensure the participation of the residents in a vegetative state in social life even when severe and most serious consequences of neurological diseases narrow the "bridges" to the environment or temporarily interrupt them completely.
In our opinion, only this is compatible with Article 1 of the Basic Law "The dignity of the human being is inviolable" as well as with our guiding principles, which we have formulated in the GFO Center Dinslaken - Living, Care & Waking Coma St. Franziskus as the basis of our work.