Mother Child cure
A mother / father-child measure (also out of date "mother-child measure") is an inpatient medical preventive or medical rehabilitation measure for mothers and fathers. The benefit usually lasts 21 days and there is a legal entitlement from the statutory health insurance companies for their insured persons if the health requirements are met . Similar benefits also exist for civil servants or privately insured persons as so-called rehabilitation measures in a sanatorium-approved rehabilitation clinic. Privately insured persons are also entitled to the basic tariff . The use of vacation for the duration of the measure is excluded. The target group of the measure are everyone who was or is responsible for upbringing, including grandparents if necessary.
In 2013, 49,000 mothers took a mother and mother-child measure. In 2003 there were around 46,000.
In 2007, 650 fathers took part in a father-child measure, in 2018 there were 1,600.
Requirements and application
The legal basis for mother / father-child measures is anchored in Section 24 and Section 41 of the Fifth Book of the Social Code (SGB V).
A legal claim to a preventive measure is to
- to eliminate a deterioration in health that would likely lead to an illness in the foreseeable future,
- to counteract any risk to the child's health development,
- To prevent diseases or to avoid their aggravation or
- for family carers.
Medical preventive measures according to § 24 SGB V are always carried out on an inpatient basis, even without outpatient treatment options having been exhausted (§ 24 Paragraph 1 Sentence 4 in conjunction with § 23 Paragraph 4 Sentence 1 SGB V).
A right to a rehabilitation measure exists in order to
- to cure, ameliorate, or prevent a disease from getting worse.
The health insurance company decides on the application using the medical service of the health insurance company . The main criteria for the decision are the rehabilitation guidelines of the Federal Joint Committee of Doctors and Health Insurance Funds and the assessment guidelines "Prevention and Rehabilitation". During the mother / father-child cure you are entitled to domestic help in accordance with the requirements of Section 38 (1) SGB V.
The revised version of the "Prevention and Rehabilitation" assessment guideline approved on February 6, 2012 contains clarifications on the provision of preventive and rehabilitation services for parents and their children. In particular, it is stipulated that the principle “outpatient before inpatient” does not apply to these measures and that pension insurance institutions do not provide mother / father-child services. Certain health disorders are now expressly used for the assessment, which typically cause a high risk of illness in parents, for example the exhaustion syndrome , feelings of restlessness and anxiety, sleep disorders and multiple stresses from work and family.
Duration
Inpatient mother / father-child measures are designed for 21 days, with an application to the health insurance company during the measure being possible for a further week for medical reasons. The repetition of a mother / father-child measure is usually considered at the earliest after four years ( Section 23 (5) SGB V), unless an early payment is urgently required for medical reasons. An additional payment of 10 euros must be made for each calendar day of stay, for a maximum of 28 days.
stay
An inpatient health measure is not a vacation stay. The participants take an active part in the treatment process. The rehabilitation clinic creates a treatment plan that is tailored to the indications. This can include psychological or educational discussions , exercise programs , physiotherapy , nutritional advice or other training. Depending on the age of the children and the size of the houses, childcare is offered in the facilities and knowledge-preserving lessons for schoolchildren outside of the holidays.
Treatment concepts
Most mother-child or father-child clinics use a salutogenesis approach . H. a holistic therapeutic approach. The therapy plan is put together individually according to the needs of the patient and consists, among other things, of medical applications, therapeutic baths, physiotherapy, psychological and educational support. New approaches are based on clinical pictures that are often psychosomatic as a result of general excessive demands in everyday life. Therapy must therefore be more holistic.
Rehabilitation clinics also offer special focus cures for particular clinical pictures or stress constellations (e.g. obesity , ADD / ADHD , asthma , neurodermatitis , women with cancer, single parents, grief, separation) as part of their annual treatment courses . Other houses specialize in special patient groups (e.g. mothers / fathers with disabled children).
See also
- Maternal recovery work
- Mother Child Aid Organization eV
Web links
- Mutter-Kind-Hilfswerk eV
- Catholic Working Group for Mothers' Recovery eV
- Kur + Reha GmbH of the Paritätischen Wohlfahrtsverband Baden-Württemberg
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anke Schipp: Mom, it's great that you're home . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . No. 19 , May 10, 2015, p. 53 .
- ↑ Alone among men. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Guideline of the Federal Joint Committee on Medical Rehabilitation Services (Rehabilitation Guideline). (PDF; 59 kB) June 19, 2009, accessed October 1, 2009 .
- ↑ a b Assessment Guideline Prevention and Rehabilitation. (PDF) (No longer available online.) February 2005, archived from the original on November 23, 2012 ; Retrieved April 14, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ New assessment guidelines create more transparency and clarity for mother / father-child measures , joint press release by the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds, the Federal Association of German Private Clinics and the German Mothers' Recovery Association, February 7, 2012 (accessed on April 14, 2013)
