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Mantel Care

Mantel Care

Informal care is unpaid and often long-term Health that a person gives to loved ones, for example to a partner, parent or child. However, Health for a neighbor, friend or acquaintance also falls under informal care. The informal caregiver has a personal connection with the person for whom they care. Many people are informal caregivers without knowing it. In fact, informal care is more than performing tasks such as personal care, household chores and transportation. Many informal caregivers also take full control of the care process, such as arranging Health, visiting doctors, contacting caregivers and arranging administration and financial settlement.

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What does the municipality understand by informal care appreciation and support?

The municipality provides informal care support and appreciation in a variety of ways;

  • Support needs
    Following a Wmo notification, the support needs are Map out during an interview with you. Your personal situation will be taken into account. When Map your social network, it is also determined whether someone receives or provides informal care.
  • Steunpunt Mantelzorg Leudal
    Individual family caregivers and caregivers can contact the Steunpunt Mantelzorg Leudal, run by welfare institution Synthese, for information and advice.
  • Mantel Care Appreciation
    • The Day for Mantel Care, organized by Steunpunt Mantelzorg Leudal
    • the Mantelzorgcompliment (financial compensation)
    • the Mantelzorgattentie (small appreciation).

Eligibility Requirements for informal care support and appreciation

  • Every caregiver whose care recipient lives in Leudal may contact Steunpunt Mantelzorg Leudal, there are no costs involved.
  • For all appreciation and support activities, the care recipient must live in the municipality of Leudal. This does not apply to the informal caregiver.
  • We define informal care as all the help given to a person in need of help by someone in their immediate environment. This includes intensive and less intensive, short-term and long-term help to housemates and to relatives, neighbors or friends living away from home, to people living independently and to residents of care institutions.

Explanation of definitions used

  • Caregiver = person providing care
  • Care recipient = person receiving Health
  • Mantel Care Appreciation = appreciation that municipality offers to family caregivers. They do so in 3 forms:
    • Informal care gift: present
    • Mantel care compliment: financial allowance of €50.
    • Mantel care support center: information and advice