Mantel Care

Informal caregivers provide long-term, unpaid care for a family member or acquaintance who needs help. This usually involves Health for persons with a long-term illness, disability or advanced age.

Help for family caregivers

Do you care for a partner, friend, child, neighbor? Then you can ask if you can be guided and helped to perform this heavy task. This also applies to children who care for a family member, for example. They too can and may ask for help and support.

Information and support

You can contact the Support Center for Mantel Care for information and support. They can take care of arranging things for you, such as applying for a pgb. Sometimes they also arrange practical help with informal care. This is also called respite care.

Reimbursement by health insurance

Did you know that as an informal caregiver you can also receive reimbursement from the supplemental health insurance? For more information and a reimbursement overview, visit the Independer website.

Parking permit for family caregivers

Registered informal caregivers can also apply for a parking permit under certain Requirements . This so-called volunteer caregiver vignette allows parking at a reduced rate at the home of the person to whom volunteer care is provided.

Mantel Care Compliment

Are you yourself receiving unpaid help from a caregiver, such as a family member, neighbor, friend or someone else close to you? And would you like to thank this person for the Health? Then you can apply for the Mantelzorgcompliment in the fall. The Mantelzorgcompliment is an annual appreciation by the municipality of Kerkrade for informal caregivers. Read more about the Mantelzorgcompliment on the information page.