Apply for day care

The day care should support the home care accompanying. You can make use of day care services if home care cannot be sufficiently ensured or if this is necessary to supplement or strengthen home care.

Day care is usually used by people in need of care whose relatives work during the day. Those in need of care are usually picked up in the morning and brought back home in the afternoon.

Within the limits of the maximum benefit amounts, the nursing care fund assumes the care-related expenses, including the expenses for care, and the expenses for the medical treatment services necessary in the institution. The costs for accommodation and meals as well as separately calculable investment costs, on the other hand, must in principle be borne privately.

The maximum amount of benefit for shall comprise each month:

• for care level 2: 689 euros,
• at care level 3: 1,298 euros,
• at care level 4: 1,612 euros and
• at care level 5: 1,995 euros.

Persons with care level 1 can use their relief contribution (up to 125 euros) for day care.

Semi-inpatient care also includes the necessary transport of the person in need of care from the home to the establishment of day care and back.

Persons in need of care of care levels 2 to 5 can claim semi-inpatient day and night care in addition to outpatient care benefits, care allowance or the combined benefit according to § 38, without being credited to these claims.