The programme for the development of family nursing homes is an element of the state social policy in the field of support for persons requiring assistance due to their age or disability, and its most important objective is to improve the availability of care services provided in family nursing homes and to develop this form of support.

– The form of care services in the form of a family nursing home is an intermediate link in the social assistance system between care services provided at the place of residence and a round-the-clock specialist support facility, which is a nursing home. Taking into account the demographic processes associated with the ageing of the population, there is a need to develop family forms of support for persons who require a wide range of care services, but, at the same time, do not need yet to be placed in a nursing home – explains the Minister of Family and Social Policy, Marlena Maląg.

The programme for the development of family nursing homes is being launched

From the data of the Ministry of Family and Social Policy it results that today, in 12 voivodeships, there are 47 family nursing homes in total, offering places for about 360 persons. 12 homes are run by public benefit organisations, and 35 – by natural persons.

– We want to support municipalities in the implementation of the task, hence the decision on launching the programme for the development of family nursing homes. It will be implemented as from 2022 and is addressed to municipal self-governments – stresses Minister Maląg.

The programme consists of two modules:

Module I provides for co-financing of the costs that municipalities incur in connection with referring persons to family nursing homes (costs of their stay in these institutions):

• up to 30% of the costs incurred by municipalities for the stay of persons referred to family nursing homes before 2022,
• up to 50% of the costs incurred by municipalities in the case of newly referred persons, i.e. persons referred by way of an administrative decision to a family nursing home in 2022.

Module II means co-financing the costs of renovation or purchase of equipment in the case of creating a new family nursing home:

• co-financing of up to 80% of the costs of implementing the task, i.e. the costs of renovation or purchase of equipment to adapt the building, which the municipality plans to make available, from its own resources, to a public benefit organisation or a natural person for the purpose of launching a family nursing home in it.

Who can run a family nursing home?

A natural person or a public benefit organisation pursuant to an agreement concluded with the municipality.

For whom?

For not fewer than three and not more than eight persons living together who require support in the form of care and living services due to their age or disability.