Healthy aging

In cooperation with the public health department, Wilde Bühne offers three modules that deal with the topics of addiction prevention and health promotion. All three modules can have a positive effect on the quality of life in old age. The program includes an authentic play, an entertainment program and improvisational theater.

• “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde” is a well-known play from world literature and, in the Wilde Bühne version, is particularly moving due to the subsequent exchange between the older people and the actors on stage.
• “Jakob & Erna putzen durch” is an entertainment program of direct communication and interaction for people in inpatient facilities. It encourages older people to join in with the storytelling, participation and singing. The familiar language, funny stories from everyday life or familiar surroundings awaken memories, stimulate, strengthen the sense of community and connect people with life.
• Through the interaction during the performances, “improvisational theater” encourages older people to get involved, contribute to the action on stage and bring stories to life together with the actors.

It is also important to the state capital of Stuttgart to promote the health of older people in residential care facilities. For this reason, the health department carried out the “Healthy living in the Kornhasen” project in a Stuttgart care home. The aim of the project was to promote the residents’ existing resources and to initiate and anchor health-promoting measures in the facility. The final report on the “Healthy living in the Kornhasen” project can be downloaded below.

The project has resulted in various offers that can be transferred to other partial and full inpatient facilities in Stuttgart:

• Exercise pass for older people
• Theater offerings from Wilde Bühne e.V.
• Use of reading mentors

In addition, interested facilities can contact the public health department and, if required, be supported in a health-promoting organizational development process.

On request, the health department offers training courses for relatives and employees in care and social services. The topics are varied and range from health promotion to addiction prevention. Please do not hesitate to contact us.

Older people were photographed as part of a project by TrotzAlter. These “photo models” use their biographies and their commitment to promote an independent life in the middle of things.

The exhibition of these pictures and the accompanying interview excerpts show the possibilities of a varied and contented life in old age. The expressiveness of these pictures can thus be passed on to other older citizens of the state capital Stuttgart. And perhaps it will be possible to make even more older people aware of the strengths of their current life situation: sometimes cheerful, sometimes thoughtful, active, experienced, self-determined - always completely themselves.

The exhibition can be loaned to care homes, meeting places, district and family centers or museums. It is a good starting point for discussions with older people about the quality of life in old age, “successful ageing” and “independent living”.

Every autumn, we organize the Stuttgart Film Festival of Generations. Its concept is to bring cinema into the district and create low-threshold opportunities for young and old to meet and exchange ideas. That’s why we are delighted when we can win over senior citizens’ meeting places, community centers or care facilities as cooperation partners in whose premises the films are shown. Each film screening will be followed by an audience discussion with selected experts from the fields of work with senior citizens, gerontology and healthcare.