Persons in need of care. Classification: years, region, kind of care, level of nursing care

Level of nursing care	Kind of care
	Persons in need of care total	inpatient nursing care Info	outpatient nursing care Info	Nursing allowance Info
Nursing care levels total	2,860,293	857,302	692,273	1,384,604
Nursing care level I	1,637,386	338,197	409,191	923,958
Nursing care level II	890,252	340,869	215,121	365,195
Nursing care level III	323,961	168,698	67,961	95,451
Not yet assigned a level of nursing care	8,694	9,538	-	-
informative: persons without level of nursing care with significantly       limited ability to cope with everyday life	180,483	22,682	41,655	X

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Year	2015	2015 2013 2011 2009 2007 2005 2003 2001 1999
Region	Germany	Germany Baden-Wurttemberg Bavaria Berlin Brandenburg Bremen Hamburg Hesse Mecklenburg Western Pomerania Lower Saxony North Rhine-Westphalia Rhineland-Palatinate Saarland Saxony Saxony Anhalt Schleswig-Holstein Thuringia Recipients who live abroad

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Source(s)/Contact

• Nursing care statistics, Federal Statistical Office, Branch Bonn (more information on 
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Comment(s)

• Because of the reform of the nursing care insurance in summer 2008 the incentive to receive services of the partly inpatient care in addition to the nursing care financial benefits and/or outpatient non-cash benefits has significantly risen. Cause for this is especially, that the maximum total claim from the combination of services of the day and night care with outpatient non-cash benefits or the nursing care financial benefits has risen to 1.5 times the previous amount by the reform. If, for example, 50 percent of the services of the day and night care are used, now in addition there is a 100 percent claim of nursing care financial benefits or a nursing non-cash benefit. (Previously the nursing care financial benefit or the outpatient non-cash benefit was considered as benefit maximum limit.)
  Starting with the survey 2009, for the determination of the total number of persons in need of care, those persons, who are attended to partly inpatient in facilities, are no longer added. These persons usually also receive nursing care financial benefits and/or outpatient non-cash benefits and are therefore already included in the total number of persons in need of care. Until 2008 double counting may have occurred regarding the number of persons in need of care, as far as recipients of day respectively night care also received outpatient care or nursing care financial benefits.
  With the modified determination of the total number of persons in need of care the temporal comparability of the total number of persons in need of care in 2009 with the previous surveys is somewhat limited. The related dampening effect on the rate of change in the nursing care statistics 2009 probably accounts for one percentage point in the federal average. The effect refers only to the total number and not to the temporal comparability of the single types of services.
• The reference date of the data procurement for the outpatient and inpatient nursing care facilities is December 15, for the recipients of nursing care allowance it is December 31.
• December 31st2011:
  The comparability of the data on recipients of care allowance according to Section 37 SGB XI to previous years is limited - the increase is shown to be too high in the national average. The overall increase in those requiring care is therefore overstated. This information is based on data supplied by the nursing care insurance funds.

Refresh period of data

• This table is continued in the following table:
• Persons in need of care, e.g. by region, age and sex (starting from 2017)

Links

• Information concerning Persons in need of care, outpatient nursing care (1999-2015) .
• Information concerning Persons in need of care, outpatient nursing care (starting from 2017) .
• Information concerning Persons in need of care, e.g. by region, age and sex (starting from 2017) .
• Information concerning Persons in need of care in inpatient nursing care facilities (1999-2015) .
• Information concerning Persons in need of care in inpatient nursing care facilities (starting from 2017) .
• Information concerning Persons in need of care (number and rate), e.g. by region .
• Information concerning Social long-term care insurance, recipients of benefits e.g. by type of service
• Information concerning Persons in need of care, e.g. by region, age and sex (1999-2015) .
• Information concerning Social long-term care insurance, recipients of benefits e.g. by age .

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