ÖJAB senior housing complex Aigen in Salzburg is to be expanded | ÖJAB
A refurbishment and an expansion were submitted to the design advisory board of the city of Salzburg
Salzburg – The ÖJAB (Austrian Young Workers’ Movement) facility to expand and modernize its 30-year-old senior citizens’ residential complex in Aigen in the district of the same name in the city of Salzburg by 2027 in order to meet the increasing need for care places in the city of Salzburg.
The nursing home at Aigner Straße 19 currently offers 118 places (web: oejab.at/aigen). In a first step, a modern, inviting new building is to be erected on the directly adjacent site. After that, the previous building is to be completely renovated in several stages, thoroughly modernized and expanded by one floor. The facility remains in full operation at all times, all senior citizens can stay in their homes and all nursing jobs are retained. In total, around 160 modern care places are to be created in cooperation with the renowned Salzburg architects “Kofler Architects”.
Modern house communities with single rooms for residents of all care levels are planned. Residential structures are also possible for couples. Generous outdoor areas and inviting terraces in the immediate vicinity of the protected grassland of the city of Salzburg will give the future residents a feeling of living in the countryside and yet in the middle of the city. There will be a meeting area in the newly designed entrance area and a green village square in the middle of the residential building. The future ÖJAB nursing home in Salzburg-Aigen is to be an outwardly open, lively social space that provides infrastructure for an entire district, from in-house childcare to senior advice and community nurses.
At the moment, the planning is still in the early stages. Salzburg’s city and state politicians have supported and accompanied this project from the start and are in close contact with ÖJAB. After the design advisory board of the city of Salzburg approved the urban development approach of the project in the meeting on January 26, 2022, the topics of “materiality” and “outdoor design” will be dealt with in the upcoming advisory board meetings. At the same time, the building authority of the city of Salzburg is working on creating the basis for the best possible implementation. If the design advisory board of the city of Salzburg approves ÖJAB’s drafts, ÖJAB will present the project in detail to the other political decision-makers. Their approval is a prerequisite for further implementation.
In any case, new care places are urgently needed. According to Statistics Austria, the number of care benefit recipients will almost double by 2050 – and accordingly the need for inpatient care beds in the city of Salzburg.
“This project is an important investment in Salzburg’s social infrastructure, with which we support the social planning of the state and the city and ensure good care for the people of Salzburg in old age. Our goal is for Salzburg to have a state-of-the-art nursing home in 2027 with the ÖJAB senior residential home in Aigen, in which the people entrusted to us receive loving and professional care at the highest level
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ÖJAB has shown again and again that even in difficult times it does not hesitate to act when it comes to social security in Austria. “In November 2020, in the middle of the lockdown, we founded a nursing school in Vienna, which was very successfully built up. Because there are not enough nurses. We will partially cover the growing need for trained nursing staff in ÖJAB centers with junior staff who have been trained in-house.
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The ÖJAB – Austrian Young Workers’ Movement is a non-profit organization for 21 student dormitories and 3 nursing homes in Vienna, Güssing in Burgenland and Salzburg-Aigen. In addition, it supports around 2,000 young people and adults every year with vocational training and career orientation and provides development cooperation in Burkina Faso in West Africa. The independent association employs more than 650 full-time employees at 38 locations in Austria and has existed for over 75 years. ( net: www.oejab.at )
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ÖJAB, Wolfgang Mohl, Public Relations, 01 5979735-826, wolfgang.mohl@oejab.at