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Nursing Homes And The Lutheran Home For The Aging

Nursing Homes and The Lutheran Home for the Aging


Recently, I had the pleasure of having a personal tour of the Lutheran
Home for the Aging located in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. I chose this area of study
because it happened to be convenient in location for me as well as easily
accessible to a source of an interviewee that I felt comfortable with and who is
also very comfortable with myself. I find it much easier to conduct an
interview and get more relevant information from a source that I've already had
former contact with and also established a friendship with. I interviewed, age
48, who was a social worker at the Lutheran Home for the Aging for 12 years
until she changed career paths that would benefit herself more as well as her
family. graduated from the University of with a Social Work degree and is
presently pursing a two year Dental Hygiene degree(Associate Degree). She
explained to me that at the time she was hired at the nursing home it was not
necessary for social workers to have to take a test in order to obtain a license
and a position in the social work field, a position that she held for twelve
years explained to me how she was "Grandfathered" into her social worker
position and did not have to take a test for a license until it was required
after years of responsible and professional work in the Home for the Aging.
The Lutheran Home for the Aging was founded in 1906 by John C. Koch,
with the motivation and desire to promote residential care for his fellow aging
Lutheran constituents. Along with the supportive interests of other Lutherans,
he purchased approximately eight acres of land. A large house on the property
served as the Home's first building and within a year of its founding, it had
reached a capacity of twenty members. Today the same desire and motivation has
increased the residential population to 313 members, age 65 and over. The
founders of the Home did more than provide a place to live for the Aging. They
founded a tradition of...