Preventive Care:
Which benefits will be increased in January?
The 2023 nursing care reform already brought about changes last year – such as higher contributions to nursing care insurance. A lot has also changed in nursing care in 2024. For example, the benefit amounts for nursing care allowance and nursing care benefits in kind were increased by five percent. According to the Federal Ministry […]
Care in an ageing society: Digital assistants make work more effective and replace missing staff
In NRW, several companies are working on digital assistants that are intended to make inpatient care more effective. The new applications are also intended to enable people to live longer in their own homes. A young woman is sitting in a wheelchair in the Irmgardis residence in Viersen. The 21-year-old has a high level of […]
Woman from Wismar switches from retail to care: “Here I experience much more gratitude”
Wismar/Grevesmühlen. She worked in retail for 25 years. When she found out that she was being made redundant, Andrea Witt decided to take a completely different career path. “I wanted to get out of the rat race,” says the 53-year-old. She went into nursing. “Here I experience so much gratitude. That has hardly been the […]
Klaus Holetschek on the nursing emergency, debureaucratization, social issues
Since the Bavarian state elections in 2023, Holetschek has led the CSU parliamentary group in the Maximilianeum – since then, he has been heard from much less in public. Holetschek has become more powerful as a result of his job change. Nothing can be done against him and his party in Bavaria; even Markus Söder […]
What the EHS Dresden has to do with community nurse Agnes
Dresden. The older generation will probably still know her: Sister Agnes. In the film of the same name produced by DEFA, the woman in her mid-fifties drives her white Schwalbe through the fictional town of Krummbach in Upper Lusatia to look after her patients as a community nurse. The film from 1975 still gets good […]
Care 2025: Which benefits will be increased in January?
The 2023 nursing care reform already brought about changes last year – such as higher contributions to nursing care insurance. A lot has also changed in nursing care in 2024. For example, the benefit amounts for nursing care allowance and nursing care benefits in kind were increased by five percent. According to the Federal Ministry […]
More staff, more time for patients
The situation in nursing is tense. More and more nurses are needed. At the same time, more and more nurses are leaving the sector or are absent for health reasons. We spoke to nursing union member Beatrix Eilitz about the everyday work of nurses and what politicians need to do to sustainably improve working conditions […]
Care costs on the verge of collapse? | BR24
The cost spiral continues to spiral. This year too. For example, the Caritas Association of Bavaria increased the prices for nursing services in its outpatient services by a further 9.28 percent in March – after costs had already shot up by 24 percent in October last year. Overall, care at home became around a third […]
Career day brings nursing and cleaning staff together
All 1. Parish District/Grace Church of the Evangelical Parish ABU Active Bergisch Entrepreneurs ADFC AdK Employment Agency New Neighbours Campaign Bensberg Elderly and Family Assistance Association Altenberger Cathedral Association Althoff Grandhotel Schloss Bensberg AMG Albertus Magnus High School Amnesty International Andreas Hahner, photographer St. Andrew’s Church Working Group of Outpatient Nursing Services Working Group on […]
Which benefits will be increased in January?
The 2023 nursing care reform already brought about changes last year – such as higher contributions to nursing care insurance. A lot has also changed in nursing care in 2024. For example, the benefit amounts for nursing care allowance and nursing care benefits in kind were increased by five percent. According to the Federal Ministry […]