Higher demand for care services - higher supply
21.03.2019
Year after year, the number of care service users grows. In 2016, there were more than 94,000 users and in 2017 - over 100,000. “Development of care services is a chance for longer life in better health. Although this is the duty of local governments, the State government supports them through such programmes as 75+ Care”, said on Wednesday Minister Elżbieta Rafalska at the Prime Minister’s Chancellery.
Provision of care services and specialist care services is the duty of a municipality, which it is obliged to provide and finance from the municipal budget. “Local governments may benefit from two programs concerning care services. One of them in the 75+ Care programme, and the other is financed from the Solidarity Fund for Supporting the Disabled (SFWON). Beneficiaries of the SFWON programme will be disabled persons aged below 75 years”, said Minister Elżbieta Rafalska at a meeting in the PM’s Chancellery.
Call for tenders to the 2019 edition of the “Care services for the disabled” will be announced in March. The purpose of the programme is to make care services, also specialist care services, better available to persons with severe disabilities aged below 75 years and children below 16 years with diagnosed disabilities.
In the programme, municipalities may apply for the refund of up to 50% of the costs of care services and specialist care services provision. This will enable increasing the number of hours of care services. The programme does not impose either the minimum or the maximum hourly rate for care services. Every municipality may apply for co-financing under the programme.
- Last updated on:
- 23.05.2019 11:41 Biuro Promocji
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- 23.05.2019 11:41 Biuro Promocji