Overview

• Katrin Staffler pressed for stronger relief for family caregivers by ensuring reliable day-care and short-term care options within communities.
• She cautioned that many statutory entitlements remain merely on paper due to regional shortages of care places.
• Staffler called on municipalities to assess local demographics and build care infrastructure to meet projected demand over the next 10 to 15 years.
• The commissioner argued that rising nursing-home co-payments have surpassed what citizens can shoulder and attributed higher fees to wage increases and general price inflation.
• She identified cost-cutting levers such as removing investment and staff training expenses from the statutory care insurance fund to ease financial burdens.