Many different services are involved in care. The names and tasks of services are often unclear. This glossary provides an overview.
Outpatient Care Services
Outpatient Care Services are mobile services that provide home care and help with household management.
Its offer includes, among other things, personal assistance, such as support in organizing daily life and at home, as well as maintaining social contacts and social skills for those in need of care. Examples include walking, event tracking, or board games.
Different than outpatient care services They are not authorized to provide any assistance with personal care or home nursing care. A care service is under the guidance of a responsible specialist, but does not need to be a nursing specialist.
Fulfillment services can be accessed via In-kind care benefits financed.
Outpatient hospice/palliative services
The outpatient palliative care service accompanies the dying and their families, supports them in staying at home for as long as possible and is available to everyone affected during the death and bereavement process.
Full-time coordinators train and accompany volunteer supporters and organize their tasks, including in the home of the dying or in a nursing home.
Outpatient care can complement the use of SAPV (“Specialized outpatient palliative care”, with 24-hour availability and multidisciplinary care by specially trained doctors and nursing staff).
Outpatient hospice and palliative care services are funded by health insurers. Support is free for those affected.
Outpatient Care Services
Visit Outpatient Care Services those who need care at home and provide care services. You can help with personal care, provide in-home nursing care, provide care services or provide domestic support.
If a person only needs temporary care, for example after an accident, the health insurance company may cover the costs. This is then referred to as bridging care or bridging care.
The health insurer is also responsible for the treatment measures prescribed by the doctor. The nursing team performs medical measures such as administering medications, putting on and taking off compression stockings or treating wounds.
The nursing care fund is responsible for long-term assistance with personal hygiene and nutrition, caregiving and household chores if a Level of care It was determined. There may be different options depending on the level of care Types of benefits to be used.
Offers to provide support in everyday life
Offers of support in daily life are services that offer home care to the person in need of care and support in daily and leisure activities, as well as home assistance.
Providers require recognition in accordance with respective state legislation. To finance the Relief value to be used. Furthermore, the Amount of assistance benefit be used up to 40 percent.
Assisted living/service life
Assisted living/service life represents a special form of life. A housing offer is linked to a specific paid service offer. The service offering includes services specified in the contract, such as support in organizing additional paid services, such as cleaning, assistance or nursing services, emergency call service, opening hours for general inquiries or organizing events in rooms that can be rented for this purpose.
Costs are subject to free pricing and can therefore vary greatly. Housing support is available from the social care service if you are on a low income. Nursing services will be provided through outpatient care services provided and charged accordingly.
Lie one Level of care rather, the nursing care insurance fund can contribute to the costs of outpatient nursing service Home emergency call or Measures to improve the living environment may be requested.
Rest Services
To see Offers to provide support in everyday life.
Driving services
Driving services transporting people for medical or social reasons. Depending on the individual case, different providers and payers are asked, for example health insurance.
hospice
If care in your own home is no longer possible and curing an illness is impossible, inpatient hospices offer support in the last phase of life. A multidisciplinary team offers medical, nursing, spiritual and psychosocial support. Death and mourning are understood as part of life and the objective is to maintain the person’s quality of life. The hospice is free for those with statutory health insurance. The costs are covered by statutory health insurance, nursing care insurance and, to a small extent, the hospice.
Intensive Care Services
Some outpatient care services They specialize in caring for people who require constant intensive care. These include, for example, people in a vegetative state, people requiring artificial ventilation or people with serious neurological diseases. These nursing services generally provide medical measures and care 24 hours a day, on a shift basis. This intensive care is sometimes also referred to as respiratory care or 24-hour care, but should not be combined with those 24-hour service by foreign nursing staff be confused.
The costs of an intensive care service are generally split between health insurance and nursing care insurance.
Clinical social work
The clinic or hospital social service organizes a regulated service Hospital discharge, so that further care is guaranteed after hospital treatment, for example through rehabilitation measures, with aids or through the organization of home support. This support is free for patients.
Short-term care
One Short-term care It is a facility where people who need care live and are cared for for a certain period of time. For example, because family members providing care are sick, undergoing treatment or absent. Fully hospital care facilities often also have some places for short-term care guests. For those who need care levels of care 2-5, the nursing care insurance fund may contribute to the costs. For people without level of assistance or level of assistance 1, the health insurer covers the costs in certain situations.
Medical service
The Medical Service (MD) is an independent socio-medical consultation and assessment service. The MD undertakes important tasks in quality assurance and evaluation to determine Need for care for those with legal health insurance. In private health and nursing insurance, the Medicproof assessment service normally takes on this task.
Neighborhood Care/Volunteer Centers
Colloquially, neighborhood help is understood as free help between neighbors, for example in the house or in the garden.
When it comes to care, community help can also be described as offerings organized by volunteers. Some of them are also so Offers to provide support in everyday life designed and can be used with appropriate recognition through the Relief value financed.
Asylum
A Rest home It is a house where people who need care live. In addition to the living space, you will receive the necessary care, support and care there. Nursing homes are also called all-inpatient facilities. In daycare centers, those who need care are only seen during the day (during the day). nursery) or only for a limited period of time (in Short-term care) offered.
For people for whom the Level of care 2 to 5 have been determined, the nursing care insurance fund contributes to the costs; at level of care 1 only to a minimal extent. All residents have to pay a significant portion of the house’s costs.
Nursing home communities
Nursing home communities can be organized differently. As a rule, up to 12 elderly people live in a large apartment. Each shared apartment user has their own bedroom, while the living room, bathrooms, kitchen or other utility rooms and external facilities are shared.
These are offers of care and support, domestic care (cleaning, shopping, cooking), daily structuring and, of course, care.
Depending on the level of care, the nursing care insurance fund will cover this Benefit in kind for nursing and/or support services. Additionally, there may be a start-up grant, a surcharge for residential groups or Measures to improve the living environment to give.
Social stations
social stations are outpatient care services. Historically, social centers developed from the church assistance structure and are still partially managed by the church or municipality today.
Nursery
O nursery offers all-day care in one facility. The objective is to support and maintain home care. For people for whom level of care 2 to 5 has been determined, the nursing care insurance fund contributes to the costs of care, support, treatment and transport service costs.
Food and accommodation costs, as well as investment costs, must be borne by the person needing care.
“24-hour care services” with foreign caregivers
These services provide care, help with personal hygiene and support at home (laundry, cleaning, shopping, cooking). Caregivers from abroadwho live in the house.
Financing usually comes from your own pocket, supplemented by Assistance allowance.