Service housing
Servicewohnen describes a form of assisted living in Germany. According to the home law of the federal states, this includes facilities in which the renting of living space is contractually bound to the use of certain general support services such as emergency call, caretaker service or the mediation of outpatient care and support and these services cannot be terminated independently of the rented apartment.
The serviced living differs from the outpatient assisted living insofar as the resident does not have a free choice of the provider of general care services, but is contractually bound by the rental contract to a certain provider, from full inpatient homes insofar as no complete assumption of responsibility for the lifestyle of the Resident takes place and the resident can independently take advantage of the general services mentioned (e.g. meals on wheels ). Service housing offers are mainly aimed at older people.
The term is not protected by law.
Normalization
According to the federal dormitory law (Section 1, Paragraph 2), facilities of the service living were not dormitories in the sense of the dormitory law and were therefore not subject to the regulations there with regard to structural and personal conditions as well as home supervision. With the federalism reform , with which responsibility for the home law was transferred to the federal states on September 1, 2006, this was changed occasionally and service living was assigned to the homes. The question of whether service living is a home is answered differently in the individual federal states today.
In the following countries, service living is assigned to home law:
- Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (Section 2, Paragraph 2, Section 7 of the Bremen Housing and Care Act)
- Hamburg ( Section 2 (1) Hamburg Housing and Care Quality Act)
- Lower Saxony ( Section 2 (4) Lower Saxony Law on Supportive Housing)
- North Rhine-Westphalia ( Section 2 (2) Housing and Participation Act)
- Saarland ( Section 1, Paragraph 1, Section 1b Saarland Housing, Care and Care Quality Act)
In the following countries, the residential type of service housing is not subject to residential law :
- Baden-Württemberg (Section 2 (6) Housing, Participation and Care Act)
- Bavaria ( Art. 2 Para. 2 Care and Quality of Living Act)
- Berlin ( Section 2, Paragraph 1 of the Housing Participation Act)
- Brandenburg ( Section 2 (1), Section 3 (1) Brandenburg Nursing and Care Housing Act)
- Hesse (Section 2, Paragraph 4 of the Hessian Law on Care and Nursing Services)
- Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ( Section 2, Paragraph 3 of the Equipment Quality Act)
- Rhineland-Palatinate ( Section 3 Paragraph 3 State Law on Forms of Housing and Participation)
- Saxony (Section 2, Paragraph 3 of the Saxon Care and Quality of Living Act)
- Saxony-Anhalt ( Section 6 (1) Housing and Participation Act)
- Schleswig-Holstein ( Section 9 Act to Strengthen Self-Determination)
- Thuringia ( § 4 Thuringian Housing and Participation Act)
literature
- Claudia Kempf: Service living for senior citizens: An empirical study on service quality, customer voluntary performance and price fairness . Springer-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 3658082100 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bremen Housing and Care Act (PDF).
- ^ Hessian law on care and nursing services (PDF).
- ↑ Saxon Care and Living Quality Act (PDF).