Knowledge
Guides on care after a hospital stay.
Short, practical guides for relatives, hospitals and care providers: who is responsible, which details are needed and how to proceed step by step.
The guides
Organising care after hospital
For relatives: who is responsible and what to settle before discharge.
Finding a short-term care place
Which details care homes need and who may cover the costs.
Finding a home care service
Clarify services, service area and actual capacity.
Preparing the care handover
For hospitals and social services: checklists for the request and the handover.
Handling care requests
For home care services and care providers: a practical workflow.
Choosing discharge management software
For hospitals: criteria for introduction, reach, data protection and interfaces.
How the guides are structured
Each guide answers its question briefly at the start. Steps, a checklist and a section on the limits of the guide follow. We name legal bases with a link to the statute.
The guides are editorial information. The linked sources were checked automatically; no independent professional or legal review has taken place so far. The guides do not replace personal advice from the long-term care insurance fund, the health insurance fund, care counselling (for example at a care support centre), or your doctor.
Status
Statutes at gesetze-im-internet.de: Section 39 SGB V (German Social Code, Book V) – hospital treatment and discharge management (German) · Section 7a SGB XI – care counselling (German)
Further information: Federal Ministry of Health (German)
We deliberately do not state benefit amounts because they change. Your long-term care insurance fund or health insurance fund can tell you the current amounts.
Pflege Patienten editorial team. Editorial status: 11 October 2026. The linked sources of the guides were checked automatically. No independent professional or legal review has taken place so far.
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