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Welcome to our Häuser zum Leben!

A comfortable new home that you can make extremely cosy with your own furniture. Dedicated, motivated staff who are happy to cater to your individual wishes and needs. New housemates for stimulating conversations, shared activities or maybe even new friendships.

Häuser zum Leben are Austria’s largest provider of retirement care. We operate a total of 30 Häuser zum Leben in Vienna with around 8,500 residential and care places and more than 100 retiree clubs. 5,000 dedicated staff take care of the retiree home residents and the people who attend our clubs for retirees.

Our services

We promote quality of life, social interaction and community. Our aim is to enable retirees to enjoy a self-determined life. We therefore provide a variety of residential and care options: All the services in our 30 homes are tailored to your individual needs, because everyone has different requirements for a self-determined life.

Supported living

If you are no longer able to live at home for social, health or building-related reasons, then move into one of our Häuser zum Leben. Your new apartment, your new home, will be a comfortable, relaxing place. You can use your own furniture in your new apartment (single apartment or double for couples). You can enjoy an independent life and access our care and assistance services if required (even at short notice). Our Häuser zum Leben always provide excellent care in a comfortable setting.

The following facilities are available in all our homes:

  • Reception with fixed opening times
  • ‘GastHaus’ restaurant for daily meals with a stage for events
  • MarktPlatz: grocery store, kiosk, regular social meeting place and cafe
  • Freshly prepared, home-made cuisine, organic juice and salad bar
  • Fitness or multi-purpose rooms for leisure activities (e.g. table tennis, bowling, keep-fit, music, arts and crafts, needlework, etc.)
  • Extensive grounds and lawns
  • Internet
  • Library

Assisted living

You live in your own apartment within one of our Häuser zum Leben, thereby enjoying all the comforts of a retirement home, while receiving individual assistance and care tailored to your predefined needs – regardless of your long-term care allowance. A multi-disciplinary team provides the service that is right for you.

You are therefore integrated into the home’s social life yet still have your own four walls. We offer special assistance for particular needs. This may vary depending on your predefined requirements. Under certain conditions, the following services are available:

Day care

Our day care service provides assistance with everyday life – alone or in a group. We offer: gardening, dancing, theatre, memory training and much more. Our aim is to promote your independence, mental and physical fitness, as well as your emotional wellbeing, for as long as possible. Our day care service is available for up to five hours a day from Monday to Friday.

Enhanced day care for residents with dementia-type illnesses

In all of our Häuser zum Leben, we care for people with dementia-type illnesses. We support people with dementia and enable a structured daily routine of activities within a community. Capabilities are encouraged and new things can be learned. Through meaningful tasks and activities self-competence is strengthened and quality of life is improved. This helps to maintain the independence needed for living alone.

Enhanced day care for people with socio-psychiatric needs

In certain homes, we offer assisted living specifically for older people with socio-psychiatric needs. The focus is on supporting your independence and self-determination, as well as providing assistance with meaningful social integration tasks and activities. This specific care by specially trained staff takes place in groups of no more than 14 people. Our service ranges from basic care, through needs-based medical assistance, to emotional support as part of a structured, individual daily and weekly schedule.

Enhanced day care for people with disabilities

In certain homes, we offer assisted living specifically for older people with disabilities. The daily schedules are structured and organised together with the cognitively and/or physically impaired residents, thereby enabling them to lead a normal everyday life in their own apartments. Specially trained, experienced staff provide dedicated, professional support according to residents’ needs.

Support centres for people with dementia

In certain homes there are support centres for people with dementia. These provide disoriented residents in need of out-patient care with the highest possible quality of life and maximum freedom in an appropriate setting. Tried and tested concepts are used, such as Naomi Feil’s Validation therapy, basal stimulation and aromatherapy. This sophisticated range of treatments makes it possible to recognise wishes and needs and promote existing skills. Admission is short-term and only for the purpose of stabilisation.

In-patient nursing care

Every home of Häuser zum Leben has links to at least one in-patient facility. Qualified nursing staff are on hand to provide care and assistance around the clock. At certain times, you will also receive medical care from our doctors. The focus is on resident-focused care, assistance and treatment. You are welcome to attend all the events in our homes and make use of the communal areas.

Rehabilitation facilities in the Wieden, Atzgersdorf and Gustav Klimt homes

Retirees are supported to regain their mobility following a fall or as a result of illness, in order to enable them to return to their own apartment. This includes reinforcing and restoring everyday skills and learning to use mobility aids independently. All our medical and nursing care is provided by inter-disciplinary teams, consisting of doctors, occupational and physiotherapists, psychologists, social workers and nurses.

In-patient care at Döbling Hospice

The in-patient hospice at our Döbling home is designed for terminally ill patients over the age of 18 who are suffering from complex symptoms that require a high level of nursing, medical and psycho-social care. Terminally ill patients, along with their families and relatives, receive all types of care from a multitude of professionals. The focus is on maintaining and promoting patients’ quality of life. They should be able to lead a self-determined, dignified life until the very end.

Temporary stays

Temporary assisted living

Are you temporarily unable to use your home? Due to your state of health do you temporarily need more intensive support or care that cannot take place in your home? Our service ‘temporary assisted living’ enables retirees in need of care or support to take advantage of all services that we offer our residents. With approval for funding from the Vienna Social Fund there is the possibility to live in a furnished Haus zum Leben for up to 92 days a year.

Relief for relatives

Our Häuser zum Leben offer a special service for families and relatives who need short-term support to care for their loved ones due to holidays, illness or lack of time. Depending on the level of care required, loved ones are looked after as part of our ‘assisted living’ service or in an inpatient setting. With this offer, which is subsidised by the Vienna Social Fund, there is the possibility to request up to 35 days of support a year in one of our homes.

Daily fresh-cooked meals

We often hear it said that food brings people together. With this in mind, we bring our residents together up to five times a day for breakfast and lunch in our ‘GastHaus’ restaurants. Our residents receive a varied full board catering service consisting of three delicious main meals including hot and cold drinks. In addition, two snacks between meals are available per day on request. Meals can also be eaten in the apartments.

Our residents can choose from different menus – these include dishes suitable for people with diabetes and easy-to-eat soft food. We cook the food fresh every day with high-quality ingredients. More than 30 percent of the food is organic.

Meet-ups at MarktPlatz

MarktPlatz: grocery store, kiosk, regular social meeting place and cafe. Here you can enjoy coffee and cake as well as a small meal on your own, with friends or with visitors. The MarktPlatz is the cafe in our Häuser zum Leben.

How you can move into one of our Häuser zum Leben

To be able to move into one of our Häuser zum Leben there are certain eligibility criteria:

  • Main residence in Vienna
  • Austrian or equivalent citizenship (for more detailed information please contact a service centre of Fonds Soziales Wien (FSW)
  • Need for care – regardless of the care allowance level
  • Obtain an information and application folder for residential and care homes from FSW.
  • Complete your application. Specify up to three preferred homes on your application. Then submit your application to FSW: in person or by post: 1030 Vienna, Guglgasse 7-9 or via email: post@fsw.at. If you are already registered with Häuser zum Leben, this application will still be taken into account!
  • FSW will arrange to visit you at home. At this meeting they will determine your individual care and support needs.
  • Once your needs have been established, you will receive FSW funding approval by post
  • FSW will notify you as soon as an apartment becomes available in your preferred home. Häuser zum Leben will then invite you to view the apartment.
  • If you like the apartment you can move in straight away. You can also reserve the apartment for a fee. To give you time to organise your move, you can initially use free loan furniture – subject to availability.
Our 30 Häuser zum Leben

You can find further information in our folder „Living, assistance and care, tailored to your needs“ in the downloads area.

Refugee assistance

Since 2015 Häuser zum Leben has been providing aid to refugees. In certain homes, apartments that are not needed for retirees are allocated to refugees, in particular families. After the outbreak of war in Ukraine in February 2022, a number of families who had to flee from the war have been living in some of our Häuser zum Leben. As part of the refugee assistance service, Häuser zum Leben offer basic care, assisted living and work integration.