"Securing care provision is one of the biggest challenges in the coming years," said First State Official Jürgen Vogt, who chaired the meeting on behalf of District Administrator Dietmar Allgaier. This is because the number of people requiring assistance and care will also rise sharply in the Ludwigsburg district due to demographic developments.
Ten fields of action were formulated for further development
The district care plan will be regularly revised and reviewed. The areas of advisory structure, representation of interests, nursing staff and digitalization have been newly included. Ten fields of action have been formulated for further development: the advancement of outpatient care in the district; the further development and optimization of existing support structures for the elderly and people in need of care in the towns and municipalities in the district in the spirit of a caring community; the expansion of neighbourhood development in the district; the intensification of efforts to address the shortage of nursing staff, the strengthening of outpatient services; advising on the creation of further residential care communities, the expansion of day care places, the expansion of solitary short-term care places for time-outs for caregiving relatives; the expansion of solitary short-term care places for aftercare in acute care and the recruitment of informal carers, i.e. caring relatives and neighbors.
The funding guidelines for investment cost funding for solitary short-term care and residential care communities have been included in the plan unchanged. An additional focus is to be placed on neighborhood development in order to strengthen home care and relieve the burden on relatives with care and nursing responsibilities. To this end, a funding guideline is to be developed in 2024 to enable funding in the municipalities. In order to be able to act and respond to needs as early as 2024, 150,000 euros have been set aside in the 2024 budget.
