' Older with low incomes cannot hire home care '

That is, the care institutions ZZG Zorggroep, Norschoten and Viva! Care group in a broadcast of the research programme The Monitor, which is broadcast Sunday evening.

A tenant of a care home can live independently, but at home still get care and use different types of services. The Group of older people with low incomes is not eligible and is therefore preferred in a place in a nursing home.

Since this year must be assigned appropriate rental properties. This is intended to prevent people on low incomes to live in a relatively expensive home.

So they come less quickly defaulted and runs the amount lost to the Empire rent allowance not too high on must in 95 percent of cases Corporations. a affordable home assign to people who are entitled to rent allowance.

But from an earlier report of ABF Research showed that about half of the homes where care is a rent above the so-called capping border. The low income group will not be eligible for this care homes.

Disastrous Field Director Hans ZZG Fox Care Group says that this policy is "disastrous" turns out for dependent elderly people with low incomes. He tells that his organization for different clients had to reject a request for a care home because the rental of these homes was too high.

"The effect of this is that clients have no choice when it comes to their own care. And we are stuck with care homes that perfectly match the needs of a group who may live, "said Fox.

Too little Actiz, the umbrella organisation of care institutions, confirms the image. "We know that there are already some ten thousand affordable care homes too little appropriate for the target group should be assigned", a spokeswoman for Actiz. The organization expects that the problem will be bigger in the next few years.

The living bond says that the problem is not the law, but how the landlords who run law. The Organization States that housing associations themselves can choose to care homes at a lower price to rent out.

"If there is now care homes vacant, retrieved landlords no rent. Offer these homes affordable to you and comply with social responsibility ", says Director Ronald Paping in the bond.

According to Fox, it is not easy for corporations to lower rent to ask, because care homes because of the extensive facilities relatively expensive to build.

Block Minister Stef block for Live shows to the program know that "especially people on low incomes and a heavy care need affordable can live".

"When we wanted to this topic last year ago, Minister block of know nothing," said Fox. The Minister then said that elderly people who don't care can rent house, dodging to the intensive nursing home care.

More expensive "but the problem is: the Government builds the number of places in nursing homes at a rapid pace. In addition, that kind of care more expensive than in a care home, "says David against the Monitor. He finds that people themselves should be able to choose whether they live in a nursing home.

Next week, a report on the effects of assigning appropriate for elderly people with a care need in the lower House discussed.

By: NU.nl photo: REUTERS