Overview
- An INSA poll released Thursday reports that about one third of respondents cannot care for relatives at home and roughly 10% do not want to, with around four in ten saying they both can and would.
- Separate Civey findings show 64.6% of people expect poor care if they become dependent, underscoring deep distrust in the current system.
- Roughly 80% support a unified long-term care insurance that includes all citizens, and nearly 80% judge existing support for family caregivers as insufficient.
- Households paid more than €21 billion out of pocket for home care in 2023 as ambulatory prices rose faster than the 4.5% benefit increase at the start of 2025, forcing more private top-ups.
- Experts highlight that social assistance can fund home and day care through Hilfe zur Pflege, though awareness is low; in Bavaria, district governments are the point of contact.