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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Pact for Care | Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Integration and Consumer Protection

The state parliament plenum debated the topic today in a current affairs session “Tackling the challenges of care policy: Brandenburg’s “Pact for Care” – a nationwide model?” Social Minister Ursula Nonnemacher said in her speech: “The Ensuring nursing care In view of demographic developments, this is one of the greatest socio-political challenges of our time. […]

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Red Cross chief warns: “People in need of care are increasingly under-served”

Home page politics Was standing: 19.06.2024, 10:58 a.m. From: Moritz Maier PressSplit A lot of things are going wrong in nursing, complains Gerda Hasselfeldt of the Red Cross in an interview. There are solutions – if decision-makers take action. Berlin – Gerda Hasselfeldt has been President of the German Red Cross (DRK) since 2017. The […]

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