COVID 19 - Information for employees and students with care responsibilities, updated February 2021.

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NEW: Acute assistance for family caregivers is extended.

 

The Corona crisis is placing a heavy burden on the families of care recipients. In this situation, family caregivers need acute assistance and flexible support services. Relatives who care for care recipients at home during the Corona crisis and are employed at the same time will thus be better supported.

Further information at the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs here

and here: www.wege-zur-pflege.de/service/corona.html

Questions and answers about vaccination from the Federal Ministry for Health can be found here

The current and updated Covid-19 caregiving info:

1. Legal provisions to support family caregivers during the Corona pandemic

Current information from the consumer center (Verbraucherzentrale), especially on the work exemption can be found here. Information from the AOK for care recipients in care levels 1-5. The most important changes can be found here.

2. Your relatives in need of care live far away

You can get advice by telephone from a care support point in the region where your relatives live. Care support points throughout Germany can be found here.

3. Your relatives live in stationary facilities/nursing homes.

An overview of the different regulations in the individual federal states on visiting restrictions and visiting regulations in old people's homes and nursing homes is available on the website of the Pflegeschutzbund BIVA and is updated regularly.