Thirty-one accessible flats, nine accessible penthouse apartments and fifty nursing-home spots in a residential group concept with single rooms and common rooms. This is the Caritas Centre in Mannheim, Germany. The centre also comprises the St. Francis Catholic social centre, a day-nursing service for the elderly, the St. Vincent hospice and a café restaurant. It is also home to the Caritas social and migration services, the sister convent of Franciscan nuns and the citizens’ service for the city of Mannheim.
In the German Red Cross’s Justusstift retirement home, 70 elderly people in need of care are looked after and cared for in 56 comfortably furnished single rooms and seven two-bed rooms. The facility is located on the edge of Eisenach’s city centre, at a stone’s throw from the market square, the pedestrian zone, the state theatre and the Catholic St. Elisabeth Church.