Persons in need of care (until 2015)
In terms of the Nursing Care Statistics of the Federal Statistical Office:Recorded are persons, who receive services according to SGB XI (Code of Social Law). General qualification for the registration as person in need of care is acknowledgement of the nursing care fund respectively of the private insurance company about the need of care and the assignment of the persons in need of care to the nursing care levels I to IIII (including cases of hardship).
In need of care according to SGB XI are those persons, who permanently need assistance to a significant or higher degree (§ 15 SGB XI) because of a physical, mental or emotional disease or disability, for the normal and periodic activities of daily living, presumably for at least six months (§ 14 Abs. 1 SGB XI). In the sense of this legal definition, persons without a nursing care level with significantly limited everyday competence are not counted as persons in need of care.
Selected information about "Persons in need of care (until 2015)":
Tables:
- Expertises carried out by medical services ("Medizinische Dienste")
- First expertises and expertise recommendations carried out by medical services, e.g by nursing care level (1995-2017)
- Home care services
- Persons in need of care (number and quota), e.g. by region
- Persons in need of care in Residential nursing care facilities (1999-2015)
- Persons in need of care in outpatient nursing care (1999-2015)
- Persons in need of care, e.g. by region (1999-2015)
- Persons in need of care, e.g. by region, age and sex (1999-2015)
Digrams:
- Persons in need of care by age [Line Chart]
- Persons in need of care in inpatient nursing care facilities by nursing care level [Line Chart]
- Persons in need of care in outpatient nursing care by nursing care level [Line Chart]
Data Sources:
Definitions:
- Expenditure for assistance for nursing care
- Nursing care level 0
- Nursing care level I
- Nursing care level II
- Nursing care level III
- Single-line nursing care facilities
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