Rights and conditions for moving to a residential care home
Rights and conditions for moving to a residential care home
Accommodation for the elderly is a service which, depending on the established needs and the choice of the beneficiary, encompass housing, food, care, maintaining health, social work, psychosocial rehabilitation, physical therapy, active leisure time.
Accommodation services is provided by a social care home, an association and another person
Registered to provide the accommodation service and has fulfilled the prescribed conditions.
Accommodation can be recognize by a decision of the social welfare center or the user can contract it with the social service provider of accommodation.
Accommodation recognized by social welfare center can be granted as temporary or long-term. Temporary accommodation may be temporary accommodation in crises, temporary accommodation for short rehabilitation programmers and temporary accommodation in other cases.
Long-term accommodation can be granted by a decision of the social welfare center to a functionally dependent elderly person, and a seriously ill person in need of continuous assistance and care of another person, due to permanent changes in his health.
Contact details of the Central Authority, and the Receiving Authority and Transmitting Authority of the Republic of Croatia:
Ministry of Labour, the Pension System, Family and Social Policy
Trg Nevenke Topalušić 1
10000 Zagreb
Telephone: 01 555 7111
Telephone number for calls outside of the Republic of Croatia: +385 1 555 7111
Fax: 01 555 7222
Email: info@mrosp.hr
(Service for International Cooperation in the field of Protection of Children)
Social Welfare Act (OG 157/13, 152/14, 99/15, 52/16, 16/17, 130/17, 98/19, 64/20 i 138/20)
Ordinance on minimum conditions for the provision of social services (OG 40/14, 66/15 i 56/20)
Updated: 2 April 2021
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Accommodation for the elderly is a service which, depending on the established needs and the choice of the beneficiary, encompass housing, food, care, maintaining health, social work, psychosocial rehabilitation, physical therapy, active leisure time.
Accommodation services is provided by a social care home, an association and another person
Registered to provide the accommodation service and has fulfilled the prescribed conditions.
Accommodation can be recognize by a decision of the social welfare center or the user can contract it with the social service provider of accommodation.
Accommodation recognized by social welfare center can be granted as temporary or long-term. Temporary accommodation may be temporary accommodation in crises, temporary accommodation for short rehabilitation programmers and temporary accommodation in other cases.
Long-term accommodation can be granted by a decision of the social welfare center to a functionally dependent elderly person, and a seriously ill person in need of continuous assistance and care of another person, due to permanent changes in his health.
Contact details of the Central Authority, and the Receiving Authority and Transmitting Authority of the Republic of Croatia:
Ministry of Labour, the Pension System, Family and Social Policy
Trg Nevenke Topalušić 1
10000 Zagreb
Telephone: 01 555 7111
Telephone number for calls outside of the Republic of Croatia: +385 1 555 7111
Fax: 01 555 7222
Email: info@mrosp.hr
(Service for International Cooperation in the field of Protection of Children)
Social Welfare Act (OG 157/13, 152/14, 99/15, 52/16, 16/17, 130/17, 98/19, 64/20 i 138/20)
Ordinance on minimum conditions for the provision of social services (OG 40/14, 66/15 i 56/20)
Updated: 2 April 2021
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