Nachtpflege für gesetzlich Krankenversicherte

Persons in need of long-term care who are basically cared for at home can be cared for at night in a facility.

Night care is intended to provide accompanying support for care at home. You can claim benefits from daytime inpatient night care if home care cannot be provided to a sufficient extent or if this is necessary to supplement or strengthen home care. Partial inpatient care also includes the necessary transportation of the person in need of care from the home to the night care facility and back.

Within the limits of the maximum benefit amounts, the long-term care insurance fund covers the care-related expenses, including the expenses for care, and the expenses for the medical treatment care services required in the facility. In contrast, the costs of room and board, training, and investment costs that can be charged separately must generally be borne privately.

Night care facilities care for people in need of care who require assistance with going to bed, getting up and with personal hygiene measures.

Night care facilities are often used by people with dementia who have a disturbed day-night rhythm. When they are placed in a night care facility at night, family members can sleep through the night and return to caring for the person in need of care during the day.

People in need of care in care grades 2 to 5 can use day and night care in addition to outpatient care benefits in kind, care allowance or the combination benefit in accordance with § 38, without these entitlements being offset.

Ask your long-term care insurance company what documents are required and whether there is a special application form.

• Night care must be applied for from the nursing care insurance fund
• It applies to people in need of care with care degree 2 to 5, if home care cannot be ensured to a sufficient extent

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• if night care is required to supplement or strengthen home care.

Persons in need of care with care level 1 can draw on a benefit amount of 125 euros for night care. This amount corresponds to the monthly relief benefit contribution.

The application is free of charge.

• You submit an application for night care benefits to your long-term care insurance fund.
• You can obtain information on the required documents and the procedure from your long-term care insurance fund

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Night care (partial inpatient care) refers to care during the night in a nursing facility, although the person in need of care is in home care during the day.

The responsibility lies with the respective long-term care insurance fund.