Lack of care and wave of pensions: City of Salzburg trains its own people to be carers

Mirela Becirovic was born in Bosnian and came to Austria during the war in Yugoslavia in the 1990s. First she worked in retail, then as a carer in the Nonntal senior citizens’ home. Entertaining and looking after the residents and organizing the household – that was their area of ​​responsibility. “I grew into it. At some point I wanted to know more,” says the 38-year-old mother of two.

For two years she trained as a nursing assistant and specialist social worker for the elderly. Three other new nursing assistants have recently dealt with her. People who like …

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