Mantel care and informal care support center

Anyone who cares for another person can get support from the Leudal Mantelzorg Steunpunt. You can come here for information and advice, recognition and support, fellow sufferers contact, activity programs and with organizing respite care.

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Steunpunt Mantelzorg Leudal

Individual caregivers and caregivers can go to the Steunpunt Mantelzorg Leudal, run by welfare institution Synthese, for information and advice. It is important to pay attention to volunteer caregivers. Due to all developments in the field of Health, support and welfare, people continue to live at home longer. This also affects the environment of the caregiver. The pressure on informal caregivers may increase. It is important for a family caregiver to continue to get satisfaction from providing support.

Some points of interest of the Mantelzorg Steunpunt are:

  • Providing information, advice and guidance to family caregivers.
  • Organizing support for informal caregivers so that they can (continue to) perform their care tasks. For example by arranging practical help, education through information and training during theme evenings, organizing respite care and network strengthening.
  • Making connections between formal and informal Health and connecting family caregivers in their own neighborhood or village.

In order to inform inform informal caregivers as well as possible, you can register as an informal caregiver. You will then be included in a mailing list and will be notified when there is important information about care in the municipality of Leudal. For example around municipal decisions, theme meetings and training or activities for informal caregivers in the municipality of Leudal. Registration is free of charge. 

Register directly with Steunpunt Mantelzorg Leudal (NL)

Synthese

Steunpunt Mantelzorg Leudal is run by welfare organization Synthese. You can contact Synthese via tel: (0475) 74 51 38 or via info@synthese.nl. You can also find a lot of information on the Synthese website.

More information on informal care support can be found on the MantelzorgNL website.

Information Guide Health and Livability

Synthese has compiled the Health and Livability Information Guide. This information guide is a handy signpost for all residents in the municipality of Leudal. It is a comprehensive social Map. Various regulations and facilities in the areas of housing, welfare, Health and finance are listed for you. The various facilities are arranged by heading. If you would like more information please contact the organizations listed.

View the Health and Livability Information Guide (NL)

Respite care

If you are caring for another person, it is important that you are able to hand over the Health for a while from time to time. So that you do not get overburdened and can spend time on your family, friends, work or hobbies. This makes caring more enjoyable and easier. The temporary and complete takeover of your informal care duties is called respite care. Respite care comes in different forms:

Respite care at home

The Health is taken over at home if possible, allowing you to leave home while the caregiver can remain in familiar surroundings. This Health at home is especially appropriate if the person you care for likes to stay in their own familiar surroundings or if transportation poses problems. If the Health cannot be provided by a volunteer, a professional is eligible.

Examples of respite care at home include:

  • Playing with a disabled child;
  • Supervising someone with dementia;
  • Watching over someone in the final stages of life.

Respite care outside the home

With respite care away from home, you as a family caregiver have some time at home for yourself or to get away. The person you care for goes somewhere. These can be facilities professionals and/or volunteers working together.

You can apply to the Wmo for the facilities Begeleiding (day care) and Kortdurend verblijf (short-stay accommodation). Home care, disability care and mental health organizations can also offer existing facilities such as day care, temporary admission to a nursing or care home, or a children's day care center. It is sometimes possible to provide intensive Health .

For more information on respite care, visit the MantelzorgNL website. You can also contact the Steunpunt Mantelzorg Leudal. They are happy to think along with you.