Would you like to decide for yourself when and in what form you will receive assistance? Find out more about the Personal Budget here.

If you are in need of care, it may be necessary to adapt the living environment to your individual needs. You can apply to your long-term care insurance fund for financial support for necessary adaptations and conversions.

Dying people or their loved ones who need support can contact an outpatient hospice service. If outpatient care and support are not sufficient, care in an inpatient hospice is possible.  

The benefits in full-time care also include the reimbursement of proven reasonable expenses for contributions to accident insurance, if no statutory accident insurance is provided.

If there is an acute care situation in your family, you can be absent from work for up to 10 working days and receive care support allowance. For a care leave of up to 6 months, you are entitled to subsidies for health and care insurance in certain cases.

If you are in need of care and are being cared for at home, you can be provided with care aids.

If you are cared for at home by relatives or acquaintances, you can apply for care allowance from your care insurance fund.

If you are in need of care, you can apply for care assistance as part of social welfare under certain conditions.

If you are in need of care and are being cared for at home, you can apply for care benefits in kind.

If you are cared for at home by relatives, you can receive care allowance and use the services of an outpatient care service at the same time in a combination solution.

People in need of care, who are generally cared for at home, can be cared for during the day in a day care facility.

You can receive benefits from the Agricultural Health Insurance Fund (LKK) for company and household help (BHH) if you are absent due to illness, hospital treatment, preventive or rehabilitation treatment by the LKK or due to pregnancy and maternity leave.

If you can no longer manage independently at home due to your need for care and cannot be cared for at home, care in a nursing home is necessary. Your long-term care insurance will pay part of the costs upon application.

As an impaired person (so-called damaged), you will receive medical treatment on request for damage to health that has been recognized as a result of damage or caused by a recognized consequence of damage.

People in need of care, who are generally cared for at home, can be cared for at night in a facility.

People who are suffering from a serious, incurable and far-advanced disease and have only a short life expectancy left can, under certain conditions, make use of outpatient or inpatient hospice services.

Insured persons are entitled to specialised outpatient palliative care (SAPV) in the home or family sector.

If relatives who otherwise always care are prevented, the nursing care fund covers the costs of replacement care.

If people in need of care are temporarily unable to be cared for at home, it is possible to place them in a care facility for a short period of time.

If you are in need of care and cannot be cared for at home temporarily, you have the option of being cared for in a nursing facility for a short period of time.

Benefits of the care fund for people with disabilities in inpatient facilities or special forms of housing.

Caregivers can receive a subsidy for their pension plan

If your private caregiver cannot care for you due to vacation or illness, your long-term care insurance will pay for a substitute in certain cases.

A nursing service can support caring relatives.

If you are helpless as a result of injury, you can apply for a monthly care allowance.

If you need care as a result of an occupational accident, commuting accident or occupational disease, you can receive care allowance and other benefits from the statutory accident insurance.

People in need of care who are cared for at home can receive up to 125 euros per month from the nursing care fund. The money can be used to relieve caring relatives or to promote the independence and self-determination of those in need of care in everyday life.

To make it easier for you to care for relatives at home, you can attend free care courses and training sessions via your care insurance fund.

Are you a caregiver of a child in full-time care? Then you will receive professional support and advice from the foster child service.

Following a recognised accident at work or an occupational disease, you can claim reimbursement for related travel and transportation expenses.

The contribution that each and every legally insured person has to pay for long-term care insurance is regulated by law.

If you live in a facility for people with disabilities, you may be eligible for Social Security long-term care insurance benefits.

Are you a foster carer of a child in full-time care? Then you will receive professional support and advice from the foster child service.

Children and adolescents in curative full-time care have special needs. This requires close and intensive counseling of those involved in the foster care relationship. The child care service supports and accompanies foster carers and children with comprehensive services.