Supportive Care (Rehabilitation, Long-Term Care, Assisted-Living)
Hebrew source: החולה הנתמך (חולה שיקומי, חולה סיעודי וחולה תשוש)
From All Rights (Kol-Zchut) (www.kolzchut.org.il)
This portal organizes information, services and benefits that rehabilitation, long-term care, and frail (including mentally frail) patients and their families are eligible for.
Rehabilitation patients (after an accident, stroke etc.), frail and long term care patients - especially the elderly - are often in need of complex healing, specialized treatments, long term care benefit, institutional placement and aid to their family members and foreign workers. Details and explanations on all of this are found in this portal.
Rehabilitative Care
Long-Term Care Patients
- Long-Term Care Patient
- Complex Long-Term Care Patient
- Long-Term Care Benefit from the National Insurance Institute
- Employing a Foreign Worker as a Personal Care Assistant
- Institutional Arrangements for Long-Term Care and Mentally Frail Seniors
- Institutional Arrangements for the Elderly Requiring Complex Long-Term Care
- Supplement to the Disabled Child Benefit for a Child that is Ventilated
- Personal Nursing Care Benefit for Children and Adults Ventilated with a Tracheostomy
- Private Long-Term Care Insurance
- Nursing Care at Home or in the Hospital for Workplace Accidents
The Mentally Frail
The Physically Frail
Patient and Family Rights
- Employing a Foreign Worker as a Personal Care Assistant
- Medical and Rehabilitation Equipment Acquisition
- Physiotherapy in the Hospital
- Supportive Home Care (Palliative Care)
- Private Long-Term Care Insurance
- Assistance Performing Housing Modifications for People with Limited Mobility
- Mobile Dental Care Service for Seniors and Adults with Limited Mobility
- Payment Ceiling for Medical Foods/Nutraceuticals
- Personal Caregiving Services for Senior Citizens
- Social services for the Righteous Among the Nations
- Power of Attorney for Medical Treatment
- Appointing a Guardian for a Patient
- Rights Guide for Individuals Caring for an Elderly Family Member
Benefits for Holocaust Survivors
- Exemption from payment for medicines for Holocaust survivors and Nazi War Invalids
- Nursing assistance from The Foundation for the Benefit of the Holocaust Victims in Israel
- Nursing assistance following hospitalization from The Foundation for the Benefit of the Holocaust Victims in Israel
- Reimbursement of nursing expenses for Holocaust survivors who receive a healthcare benefit from Germany
- Social services for the Righteous Among the Nations
- Medical treatments and expenses for Holocaust survivors receiving a pension from the Ministry of Finance
- Reimbursement of medical expenses for Holocaust survivors from the German compensation authority
- Reimbursement/exemption from medical costs from the Clalit and Maccabi health plans for specific illnesses
Aid organizations
- For a comprehensive categorized listing of healthcare organizations offering assistance and support, click here.
- For a comprehensive listing of organizations that help senior citizens and the elderly, click here.
- Yad L'Tomech - Support Center for Family Caregivers
- Caregivers Israel - recognition and support for patients and their family members
Government agencies
Laws & Regulations
Additional publications
- The Office of Social Equality Zechuyot Shavot Zahav - Information packet for hospitalized senior citizens
- The Society for Patients Rights in Israel website: Patients Requiring Rehabilitation
- Mishpacha Metapelet website: Information about rehabilitation
Credits
- Original translation performed by The Shira Pransky Project as part of a grant from The Fellowship Fund.