Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - According to the latest figures, 540,401 people in Baden-Württemberg are in need of care. According to the State Statistical Office on Monday, that was 14.5 percent more in December 2021 than in the survey two years ago. Based on the total population, 4.9 percent of the residents received benefits from the long-term care insurance funds (2019: 4.3 percent).
More than four fifths of those in need of care were mainly cared for at home, as reported by the Stuttgart office. More than half of them were recipients of long-term care allowance who only looked after relatives. 17.0 percent of people in need of care were cared for as full in-patients in homes. Here the trend is downward. In other cases, outpatient care services helped.
The authority sees one reason for the high proportion of home care in the corona pandemic. This made it difficult for people in need of care to be admitted to short-term or long-term care.
According to the statisticians, the number of outpatient nursing services rose by almost five percent to 1262 in 2021 compared to 2019, that of inpatient nursing homes even more strongly to 2013. The vast majority of the 145,606 employees, almost three quarters, worked in the inpatient facilities. There are simply more of them, and the work there is more personnel-intensive, it was said. Only about one in four of all employees worked full-time.
According to the report, almost every fifth person aged 65 and over is in need of care (18.4 percent). It is 40 percent for those over 80 and three quarters (74.7 percent) for those over 90.
