Do your staff speak English?

Several members of the team speak fluent business English. If you have a specific requirement, we settle it before any contract begins.

My father still reads a great deal. Can you assign staff who are comfortable with books?

Of course. We take biographical and intellectual background into account when choosing who to assign.

What is your experience of dementia in an academic setting?

Dementia is dementia — it makes no distinction for an academic background. What does differ is how people meet it: academics often fight the illness for longer and feel particularly wounded by difficulty finding words. We handle that sensitively.

Home care in Dahlem — in the university quarter

Dahlem is academic Berlin. The Freie Universität, the Botanischer Garten, the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the John F. Kennedy School. People who live in Dahlem usually belong to one of these institutions or have some connection to it. The area is quiet, full of old trees, and notably well kept — and it is ageing.

Many of the professors who moved to Dahlem in the sixties, seventies and eighties are now at an age where care comes into the picture. We come to them.

Who comes to us in Dahlem

Emeritus professors of the Freie Universität who have grown old in the houses near the campus.
Families connected to the Max Planck institutes, often with academic backgrounds of their own.
Members of diplomatic families from the nearby consular quarter.
Families whose parents have moved to them in Dahlem from other university towns.

What defines care in Dahlem

Intellectual company:: Academics often want, even when they need care, to talk to someone who can follow them. Our staff read, argue and keep up with what is going on — this is not standard care, it is a meeting of minds.
Flats full of books:: Dahlem homes are often lined with books. Here people are read to, books are discussed, scholarship is valued as a way of life. Our team knows how to work with that.
International clients:: Many Dahlem families have international backgrounds — American, British, French, Dutch. Where needed, we assign English-speaking carers or carers with other relevant languages.
Discretion within the university community:: Talk too freely in Dahlem about a colleague’s private life and it will get back to her. Our team understands that.

Hospitals and journey times

Charité Campus Benjamin Franklin (Steglitz) — 12 minutes.
Helios-Klinikum Emil von Behring — 15 minutes.
Schlosspark-Klinik — 20 minutes.

Roughly 25 to 30 minutes from Moabit to most Dahlem addresses.

Frequently asked questions

Do your staff speak English?
Several members of the team speak fluent business English. If you have a specific requirement, we settle it before any contract begins.
My father still reads a great deal. Can you assign staff who are comfortable with books?
Of course. We take biographical and intellectual background into account when choosing who to assign.
What is your experience of dementia in an academic setting?
Dementia is dementia — it makes no distinction for an academic background. What does differ is how people meet it: academics often fight the illness for longer and feel particularly wounded by difficulty finding words. We handle that sensitively.

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