As staff shortages grow, a Munich startup is testing and training childlike AI companions designed to talk, remember and ...

Now, in the nursing home, Hollywood and East Germany are separated by just a thin wall. The plan is, in a few years, to also re-create the 1980s — the decade the Wall came down. Read more: ...

Wages for urgently needed nursing staff in German care homes have risen noticeably, according to data from the country's care insurance funds released on Friday. Average hourly wages increased by ...

A German nursing home has hit upon a novel – and seemingly effective – method of restoring the minds of its dementia-stricken residents: recreating Communist-era environments to provoke their ...

Two German women chat in the gardens of a senior care home in Berlin. Germany is grappling with a rapidly aging population: By 2050, almost a third of Germans will be 65 years or older, and a ...

Germany's government has agreed on a health care reform that includes a billion euro annual tax subsidy to increase the pay for nursing staff and reduce the contributions of care home residents ...

FRANKFURT/LONDON, July 14 (Reuters) - Private equity investment firm Carlyle is preparing a sale of one of Germany's top three nursing home operators, Alloheim, as it seeks to benefit from high ...

Germany is a multilingual society, but access to health care is often frustrating for people who don't speak German. The government is planning to introduce translation services, but ...

DRESDEN, GERMANY - On a recent winter morning, Gertraude Bauer and Gerda Noack went shopping in communist East Germany. Read more at straitstimes.com.