Help with care

Help with outpatient care

Outpatient care assistance is provided to enable people in need of care to live as independently and self-determined a life as possible in their own home environment, in keeping with their dignity, despite their need for assistance.

Avoiding full inpatient care

Suitable measures such as care benefits in kind, care allowance, care aids as well as day, night and short-term care are granted in order to avoid full inpatient care. Allowances can also be granted and the expenses of carers reimbursed.

Assistance for inpatient care

Assistance for inpatient care includes general care services (nursing care, social care, treatment care) as well as accommodation and meals in a retirement home.

Eligibility requirements

Persons with a considerable need for inpatient care who receive long-term care insurance benefits but are unable to cover the costs of the home due to the statutory limits on long-term care insurance benefits are eligible. Persons who are not covered by long-term care insurance and who require considerable and inpatient care are also eligible.

Documents for outpatient care assistance

• Nursing home contract
• Cost estimate for care service (only when applying for care benefits in kind)
• Documents on voluntary health and long-term care insurance (health insurance chip card), private insurance or compulsory insurance
• identity card
• Tenancy agreement / subtenancy agreement (only when applying for care services)
• Current notice of housing benefit
• Notification of receipt of basic income support in old age and in the event of reduced earning capacity
• Pension certificate(s)
• Severely disabled person's pass including notification
• Notification of war victim pension
• Classification of the care insurance fund
• Declaration of consent to request the MDK report
• Caregiver's certificate or power of attorney
• Bank statements for the last 3 months from the current account (without gaps)
• Documents on financial circumstances (savings book, current account statement of the building society savings contract and date of the earliest possible payout, securities and similar, death benefit insurance)
• Insurance documents (life insurance with surrender value, household contents insurance, liability insurance)

Documents for inpatient care assistance

• Nursing home contract
• Cost estimate for care service (only when applying for care benefits in kind)
• Documents on voluntary health and long-term care insurance (health insurance chip card), private insurance or compulsory insurance
• identity card
• Tenancy agreement / subtenancy agreement (only when applying for care services)
• Current notice of housing benefit
• Notification of receipt of basic income support in old age and in the event of reduced earning capacity
• Pension certificate(s)
• Severely disabled person's pass including notification
• Notification of war victim pension
• Classification of the care insurance fund
• Declaration of consent to request the MDK report
• Caregiver's certificate or power of attorney
• Bank statements for the last 3 months from the current account (without gaps)
• Documents on financial circumstances (savings book, current account statement of the building society savings contract and date of the earliest possible payout, securities and similar, death benefit insurance)
• Insurance documents (life insurance with surrender value, household contents insurance, liability insurance)