Care of dependant relatives

Fluxx emergency care (Fluxx-Notfallbetreuung) provides spontaneous and punctual support in the care and responsibility for elderly or ill relatives or partners when your regular daily support falls away unexpectedly. Fluxx ensures the daily structure of your relatives in need of support. This includes:

• Help for independent living in the household, among other things with everyday tasks
• Accompaniment outside the home, e.g. for walks, visits, doctor's appointments or shopping

Employees and students of Leibniz Universität Hannover can get personal advice and help through Fluxx.

Fluxxfon-Number: 0511 168-3210

You can find further information on the Fluxx-Website

In addition to the general legal regulations, such as the Nursing Care Leave Act (German: Pflegezeitgesetz) or the Nursing Care Insurance Act (German: Pflegeversicherungsgesetz), there are also paragraphs in the collective agreement of the states (German: Tarifvertrag der Länder) that are relevant for employees with relatives in need of care:

• Teilzeit: gemäß § 11 1.1 TV-L (Part-time: if, according to a medical certificate, a relative in need of care is to be cared for)
• Arbeitsbefreiung: gem. § 29 I Nr. e) cc) TV-L (Exemption from work: in case of serious illness of a person living in the same household)
• Sonderurlaub: gemäß § 28 TV-L (Special leave: important reason is given if the need for care of the relative is justified by a medical certificate)

If you have any questions regarding labour law, please contact your contact person in the Human Resources Department (German: Personaldezernat). You will find your contact person and responsibilities on this website:

Personaldezernat

For employees of Leibniz Universität Hannover, there are many options for flexible working hours. In consultation with their respective superiors, they can work part-time. In particular, employees with family or care responsibilities have the option of reducing their weekly working hours.

The possibilities of home office and mobile working can also make it easier for employees to reconcile work and family life.

Please refer to the current circular:

https://www.intern.uni-hannover.de/nocache/de/vademecum/detail/1122/

The committees of the university self-administration and the meetings beyond that are to be conducted in a family-friendly manner:

• The chairpersons of the committees and the deans of the faculties should ensure that the dates of ordinary and extraordinary meetings, discussions and consultations are family-friendly or modify them in such a way that family concerns of the participants are better taken into account.
• Meeting times should be chosen in such a way that the compatibility of work or studies and family care and/or nursing obligations of the participants is taken into account.
• Family-friendly scheduling should be flexibly oriented to the needs of the respective committee members, which should be requested before each term of office.
• The meeting and committee dates as well as the start and end times are to be announced in good time.

Leave of absence for family reasons is possible. Information on this can be obtained from the Human Resources Department.

If you have to delay the completion of a doctorate due to the difficulty of reconsiling the needs of academic work and family, you can apply for financial support. For further information click here: Promotionsabschlussförderung. 

At Leibniz Universität Hannover it is possible to study part-time in some degree programmes. The part-time study must be applied for each semester at the Enrolment Office. In a part-time semester, a maximum of half of the credit points specified in the examination regulations may be acquired. Full-time studies must be taken in the semester in which the final thesis is written. For a semester of part-time study, the full semester fee and, if applicable, half of the long-term study fees must be paid. The BAföG entitlement does not apply to part-time studies. You can find more information here: Part-time study at LUH. 

Students may take a leave of absence for a maximum of two consecutive semesters and for a maximum of four semesters in total. Longer leaves of absence are also possible for important reasons or hardship cases. In the case of raising a child, 6 consecutive semesters of leave are permitted. During a semester of leave, students may not perform any services or take any examinations. The payment of BAföG maintenance is suspended for the time of the leave of absence. 

An application for leave of absence must be submitted to the Enrollment Office each semester at the time of re-registration and must include a copy of the child's birth certificate. You can find the application and further information here:

Leave of absence/ semester off at LUH.   

If you have to delay the completion of a doctorate due to the difficulty of reconsiling the needs of academic work and family, you can apply for financial support. For further information click here: Promotionsabschlussförderung. 

Here, the city's services for seniors are bundled and the different life situations of older people are recorded:
Landeshauptstadt Hannover-Fachbereich Senioren

Confidential, neutral and free advice on all questions relating to care - the senior and care bases in the Hanover region:
Senioren- und Pflegestützpunkte in Region und Stadt

Telephone advice and quick help on all aspects of care: Wege-zur-Pflege and 030 20179131

On the basis of the solidarity of those affected, the VdK campaigns for social justice. Its goals are the professional and social integration as well as social security of its members. The VdK is politically and denominationally neutral:
Vdk-Kreisverband-Hannover

The nursing emergency hotline advises those in need of care, relatives and nursing staff on all questions and problems relating to nursing, supports conflict resolution and provides further help: SoVD-Pflegetelefon and 0180 2000 872 

Here you will find facts and figures on the subject of care as well as online guides on the subject of care and dementia: Bundesgesundheitsministerium-Pflege

The medical service of the Central Association of Health Insurance Funds (MDS) has written a very detailed policy statement for the area "People with dementia - support, care and therapy":

Grundsatzstellungnahme für den Bereich Menschen mit Demenz

Help for families with disabled, chronically and seriously ill children and young people who require care can be found here: Niedersächsisches Ministeriums für Soziales, Gesundheit und Gleichstellung

"My child is disabled - this help is available" - the tried-and-tested legal guide from the bvkm provides an easy-to-understand overview of the benefits to which people with disabilities and their families are entitled.  The new edition takes into account all changes that came into force on January 1st, 2020 due to the Federal Participation Act (Bundesteilhabegesetzes (BTHG)) and the Relatives Relief Act (Angehörigen-Entlastungsgesetz). The guide is here: Bundesverbandes für körper- und mehrfachbehinderte Menschen

Offers for parents of small children with disabilities in the city and region of Hanover. information on the home page: Mittendrin Hannover e.V. - Besonders Lebenswert

Everyday family life with disabled children and children in need of care repeatedly presents parents with special challenges. Care and support are often required around the clock. The mental and physical stress is often very great over the years. It is all the more important that parents seek support in caring for their children in order to relieve themselves, i.e. to create short and long care breaks. Information and relief options can be found here: intensivkinder-niedersachsen

Single parents of children with disabilities:
Information, advice and addresses for people with disabilities and their families can be found here: Alleinerziehende von Kindern mit Behinderungen.

Siblings of children with disabilities:
The parents need a lot of strength and time for the child with disabilities. Which situations are stressful for the siblings without disabilities? Which counseling centers and self-help groups are there for adult siblings of people with disabilities? Information is available here: Geschwister von Kindern mit Behinderungen.