If you are in need of care, your care insurance fund will, under certain conditions, pay a subsidy for conversion measures that make your home suitable for care. This includes, for example, the installation of a stair lift, wider doors and thresholds instead of steps. The measures should enable you to live independently in your own home or make everyday care easier or restore independent living.

On application, your care insurance fund will pay a subsidy of up to EUR 4,000 for such adaptations and conversions. The subsidy is limited to the actual costs of the conversion measure. If the conversion costs more than EUR 4,000, you will pay the excess amount yourself.

If you live with other people in need of care, for example in a shared care home, you can use the grant to improve the shared living environment. In total, a shared flat or group of flats can receive a grant of up to EUR 16,000.

The conversion measures that are subsidized by care insurance companies include, for example

• Adapting the living environment to your needs: Window handles at wheelchair-accessible height, stair lift, elevator
• Adaptations to the building fabric: wider doors, level-access shower, fixed ramps
• Technical aids: height-adapted kitchen appliances, lowerable wall cupboards
• Improvements to the living environment: moving to a disabled-friendly apartment, moving from the upper floor to the first floor

You can generally receive the grant once for a construction project. A further grant is possible if your care situation changes in such a way that further measures become necessary.

In retirement and care homes and residential facilities that are only rented out commercially by the landlord to people in need of care, however, the requirements are not met. You will not receive a subsidy here.