Care levels (Pflegegrad), assessment, documentation and sensors – explained for people who provide care alongside everything else.
Why a diary can decide the care level – and what belongs in every entry.
Seven pages to print, structured by the six modules. Free of charge.
Enter points per module, read off the care level. Calculates in your browser, with no data transfer.
Informal application, deadlines under § 18 SGB XI and the 70 euros for delays.
What to have ready and which three sentences really help during the visit.
One month to lodge an objection, no deadline for an upgrade application. How to justify both.
Caring from eighty kilometres away: a shared record instead of check-up calls.
An emergency button only helps if it is pressed. What a fall detector does differently.
Night is the gap in care. Alerts without waking anyone.
For small home care services: routes, duty roster, proof of service (Leistungsnachweis), access for relatives.
Service packages, proofs of service and what we deliberately do not bill.
Proofs and reports for the long-term care insurance fund (Pflegekasse).
Mandatory from 1 October 2027: what home care services need to prepare.
Assessing pressure ulcer risk: six criteria, points and evaluation.
Meaningful work in retirement: Minijob or Aktivrente, with an earnings calculator.
Senior companionship at home: search for free and get to know each other.
Care companions and support workers for your home care service.
Manage the relief allowance under § 45b and find support workers.
If no application has been made yet: apply for a care level – the application takes five minutes and the date determines from when money is paid.
If the assessment appointment is already set: download the template and start right away. Two weeks is the minimum.
If the decision has arrived and looks too low: first recalculate, then lodge an objection. An objection that does not change the level on paper only costs time.
Care-Assistant keeps the care diary digitally: entries in seconds, evaluation according to the six modules of the assessment, report as a PDF for the long-term care insurance fund and the Medical Service (MD).
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