Day and night care for people in need of care; application

If your relatives or friends are unable to provide you with continuous care at home, you are entitled to additional day and night care in a care facility. Your care insurance fund will contribute to the costs on application.

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This form can be submitted electronically (e.g. via a secure contact form using your user account with login via the electronic ID function or the ELSTER certificate) or handwritten and signed in paper form to the responsible authority.

If you have at least care level 2 and are cared for at home, you are entitled to temporary, partial inpatient care in day and night care facilities.

Partial inpatient care is intended to relieve the burden on family caregivers and ensure the continuous care of those in need of care. Day care is generally used by people in need of care whose relatives work during the day: Those in need of care are picked up by a transport service in the morning and brought back home in the afternoon. Night care is a facility for people in need of care who also require care at night, for example for wound treatment or for uninterrupted care in the case of dementia.

If you or an authorized person submits an application to your care insurance fund, it will cover the costs of day or night care up to a certain amount. The long-term care insurance fund is affiliated to your statutory health insurance fund. You can therefore use the same contact details.

The long-term care insurance funds cover the costs of day or night care

only in approved facilities with which they have concluded care contracts and
only for nursing services, social care and the transportation service. You are responsible for other costs, for example for your meals.

The maximum monthly amount that long-term care insurance companies pay for day and night care depends on your care level (as of 2021):

for care level 2, a maximum of EUR 689.00
for care level 3, a maximum of EUR 1,298.00
a maximum of EUR 1,612.00 for care level 4
for care level 5 a maximum of EUR 1,995.00

You can apply for the money for day and night care in addition to other benefits from your care insurance fund. Care allowance and care benefits in kind will therefore continue to be paid in full.

You have care level 2, 3, 4 or 5
You are cared for at home
- If you have care level 1, you can apply for the relief amount

Required Documents
- gegebenenfalls: Vollmacht, Betreuerausweis
- Bescheid der Pflegekasse über Pflegegradfeststellung (Gutachten des Medizinischen Dienstes der Pflegeversicherung)
- gegebenenfalls: ärztliche Unterlagen
- gegebenenfalls: Schwerbehindertenausweis
- Nachweise über Kranken- und Pflegeversicherung
Je nach Einzelfall können weitere Unterlagen erforderlich sein. Bitte informieren Sie sich dazu bei Ihrer Pflegekasse.

You can submit your application for day and night care by post, for example, or - with many long-term care insurance companies - in person at the office or online.

You submit the application for day and night care to your care insurance fund. If you are unable to do this yourself, you can authorize someone in writing.
The care insurance fund will check your application and inform you of the result.
You look for a facility for day care or night care. Find out about suitable providers from your care insurance fund, for example.
The care insurance fund usually settles the bill directly with the facility.

You do not have to pay anything for the application.

As a rule, you do not have to observe any deadlines.

Processing normally takes around 2 working days.
To ensure fast processing and a decision, your long-term care insurance fund must have the necessary information and any required documents in a complete and meaningful form.
The long-term care insurance fund decides on applications promptly.
Please note that the processing time stated is an average value for all long-term care insurance funds. It may vary in individual cases.
The exact processing time also depends on the complexity of the individual case and may be longer. The same applies if documents or records are sent to you or your long-term care insurance fund by post.