This is a broad area, from outpatient care services to hospice.

Old-age care deals with the assistance and care of the elderly in institutions or at home. Good examples of this are the caregiver, psychotherapeutic and hospices and palliative stations ambulatory care services, nursing homes, old people¿s homes, nursing home care, home health care in prevention. For this, trained professionals are employed, which take care of the maintenance and care of your loved ones. The extent of care ranges from simple supporting activities such as shopping, walk to the intensive care.

Use for example the legal claim against your maintenance budget on care advice through a care advisor or a nursing consultant, as well as individual advice and assistance by the health fund claim to the services of the Hospiz-and Palliative care.

You apply for the care best for your competent care Fund. Statutory long-term care insurance benefits are provided insured from application, but not before by the time in which the eligibility requirements are available. If the application is not in the calendar month, in which the need for care has occurred, but later made, benefits are provided only by the beginning of the month of the application is submitted to. The maintenance fund commissioned the MDK (medical service health insurance) or other independent experts then examining whether the requirements of long-term care and what level of care is present. The maintenance fund tells you based on the recommendations of the Verifier then a decision.