Against the background of increasing cost pressures and a deficit of the legal long term care insurance of 400 Mio. Euro in 2002, the Rürup-Commission considers personal nursing care budgets as one possible avenue amongst others to reform the legal long term care insurance. Unlike non-cash...

This article introduces the evaluation design for the ongoing social experiments with the so called personal budget for nursing care. This personal budget is a cash benefit which can be used by long term care patients and their relatives for buying individually tailored care services. In the...