Wichtiger Hinweis
Care alliance
Stand: 28.05.2024
Care alliance to help strengthen the care landscape in Erlangen
Care is considered a "megatopic". Professional associations, interest groups, politicians and society all agree on this.
According to data from the Federal Statistical Office, the number of people in need of care continues to rise. This means that the need for care is growing in all care sectors, i.e. outpatient, day-care and inpatient care. This also applies to Erlangen, as the 2020 care needs assessment shows.
In Erlangen, the care alliance is therefore breaking new ground to strengthen care.
Why a care alliance?
"We need a wide range of specialist expertise and the pooling of resources and therefore a network of different players in order to really meet the current and future challenges of care," says Dieter Rosner, Head of Social Affairs. "With the Care Alliance, we want to strengthen care at a local level within the given legal and financial framework conditions."
For this reason, care insurance companies and training providers have been invited to participate in the care alliance alongside associations, providers and stakeholders from care practice, advice and general practitioner and geriatric care. The Seniors' Advisory Council and initiatives from the care sector are also expressly addressed. Professional exchange and cooperation is also sought with networks such as the Intermunicipal Care Conference, the Erlangen Dementia Network, palliative and hospice care and the Health Region Plus.
Good coordination with existing networks in the area of nursing and care is essential for this in order to avoid duplicate structures. The care alliance could play a connecting and integrating role between the networks and thus bring together their specific professional expertise.
"In addition to the exchange of information and experience, new neighborhood-based care models could be developed and tested in the care alliance," explains Maria Werner, head of the social services department. The idea is to test exemplary approaches from other cities, to set up district-based networks of home, day-care and inpatient care or to develop district-oriented model projects.
Neighborhood-oriented concepts in particular, as an integrative approach, are increasingly viewed by experts as a sensible, necessary and sustainable alternative to the existing, rather fragmented care system, which enables more "permeability" between the sectors of care provision. This could also open up interesting prospects for Erlangen's "care landscape".
The city's future care needs assessment is also to be further developed. Qualitative aspects that take into account the expertise of the stakeholders from the "care landscape" in addition to the numerical requirements should also be included to a greater extent.
The Care Alliance sees itself as an open committee. Interested parties can contact the social welfare office and will be added to the information distribution list.
Contact:
Social planning
Telephone 09131 86 2834
E-mail: sozialamt@stadt.erlangen.de