On June 26, 2026, legislation amending the Social Assistance Act was sent to the President for signature, establishing uniform home care standards for the elderly, disabled, and impoverished. <\/p>\n
The new regulations introduce a standardized framework for home-based care, addressing a long-standing gap in social assistance policy. By formalizing service delivery and monitoring, the amendment fulfills key requirements under the National Recovery Plan, specifically milestone A70G regarding long-term care reform.<\/p>\n
Previously, home care services lacked concrete national guidelines, leaving municipalities to manage quality and execution without specific oversight protocols. The act empowers the minister responsible for social security to issue executive orders defining these service standards and evaluation methods.<\/p>\n
Support is prioritized for individuals unable to care for themselves due to age, illness, or other factors, provided they are living alone and lack assistance from family, spouses, or descendants. The legislation clarifies that home care encompasses daily living support, basic hygiene, and non-specialized nursing care.<\/p>\n
Services requiring advanced medical expertise remain categorized under separate, specialized care provisions. This distinction preserves the existing logical structure of the social assistance system while ensuring that general care needs are met consistently.<\/p>\n
Caregivers must be adults and cannot be immediate family members or spouses of the care recipient. They are required to submit a statement confirming their psychophysical capacity to perform duties and must complete mandatory first aid training.<\/p>\n
Professional entities, such as social assistance centers, are responsible for ensuring their staff receive the necessary training. For informal neighborhood support services, the organizer assumes the obligation to provide and finance this essential training.<\/p>\n
Municipalities are now legally mandated to monitor and evaluate the quality of care services systematically. This involves verifying that services are safe, effective, and purposeful, with a requirement to implement corrective actions if irregularities are detected.<\/p>\n
While municipalities already oversee social assistance through periodic environmental interviews, the new rules formalize these efforts. Notably, neighborhood assistance is exempt from this mandatory formal monitoring due to the non-professional, informal nature of these relationships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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