요양원 입소자격There are many people preparing to enter a nursing home.
Since the available services (benefit) vary depending on the long-term care level, many people wonder what level they need to be in order to be admitted to a nursing home.
Will seniors who receive long-term care level 3 or 4 not be able to enter a nursing home?
We will tell you how to enter a nursing home for level 3 and 4 beneficiaries!
A1. If you are diagnosed with long-term care level 3 or 4, you can use home benefits, special cash benefits (family care expenses), and dementia family leave system short-term protection benefits.
※Home benefits: Home care, home bathing, home nursing, day and night care (day care center), short-term care, cognitive activity-type home care, other home benefits (welfare equipment)
※Reference) Types of long-term care benefits available by grade
A2. no. Long-term care level 3 and 4 recipients can also use nursing homes (facility benefits).
However, you must apply for a change in the type and content of long-term care benefits to the National Health Insurance Corporation’s long-term care insurance and be recognized for facility benefits.
☑️Documents to be submitted
-Long-term care benefit type/content change application form
– Fact confirmation (if required)
☑️Qualifications for admission to elderly care facilities (nursing homes)
Long-term care level 3 or 4 recipients who have been recognized for facility benefits by the rating committee for the following reasons
① When it is difficult to receive care from a family member who is the main caregiver
-When there is a high possibility of being neglected, abandoned, or abused by a family member who is the main caregiver
-When it is difficult for a family member who is the main caregiver to provide care due to work, illness, overseas stay, etc.
-When you live alone and there is no family member (main caregiver) nearby who can take care of you.
② When admission to a facility is unavoidable due to poor living conditions
③ Cases where in-home benefits cannot be used due to problematic behavior due to dementia, etc.
-If symptoms of dementia are confirmed
– When the requirements for dementia symptoms are not confirmed, but the beneficiary’s problematic behavior places a large burden on the family to provide care and is under severe stress.
※Reference) Facility benefit (nursing home) costs and out-of-pocket expenses
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