Federal government passes nursing assistance training-a setback for relatives

Federal government passes nursing assistance training-a setback for relatives

The new way to care - opportunities and challenges of assistance training

In Berlin, the Nursing Employment Act was recently adopted in the Federal Cabinet. This decision has far -reaching effects on the care industry, which is in a critical situation. The President of the Federal Association of Private Provider Social Services (BPA), Bernd Meurer, commented on this decision and emphasized the importance of a quickly implementable assistance training.

Future -oriented and including training could make a significant contribution to relieving nurses and their relatives. However, Meurer criticized the fact that the duration of 18 months is a missed opportunity to provide urgently needed support faster. The pressure on affected families is immense because the structural support offers disappear due to acute lack of personnel in care. Here it becomes clear that faster availability of help is crucial for the quality of life of the families.

The situation is all the more urgent when the federal government has also made little progress in the past three years in relation to relief for those in need of care. Implementation of the coalition promise to take the training costs out of the personal shares of those in need of care is still pending. Instead, the long training period threatens to be at the expense of those in need of care.

Meurer points out that it is now time to expand access to the new assistance training. In order to achieve the desired goals, the prerequisites and processes must be designed in such a way that they meet a broad target group. This means that people from different life and educational situations have to be given the opportunity to get involved in care. Small care services in particular should be able to be integrated into the training process in order to strengthen the diversity and the offer in care.