Time out just for me

A mother's cure or father's cure is a special offer if you want to strengthen your health alone, that is, without taking children with you. The cure measure is gender-specific as well as geared to the special needs of mothers and fathers. The three-week inpatient stay in a spa clinic offers you the opportunity to find distance from the stressful everyday life and to exchange ideas with other mothers and fathers.

You have a right to a cure, if due to the stressful family situation the medical conditions are given. Common symptoms that speak for a cure are, for example:

• Sleep disturbances
• Restlessness and anxiety
.
• States of exhaustion
.
• Depressive moods
• Headaches and backaches
• Joint or respiratory problems
.
• Gastrointestinal disorders
• Heart and circulatory complaints

Prerequisite for the approval of a maternal cure or a paternal cure is, in addition to the medical reasons, that at least one child lives with you in the household and this is not older than 17 years.

A spa treatment is not a vacation. You will receive an individual therapy plan, which may include medical treatments, physiotherapy, exercise and creative activities. In psychosocial individual and/or group sessions, you have the opportunity to develop solutions that make everyday life easier and prevent your health problems. Many clinics specialize in particular therapy concepts. Depending on your previous illness, you may be in particularly good hands there, for example after a bereavement situation, cancer therapy or if you are caring for relatives.

The prerequisite for the application is a medical certificate from the attending physician. The certificate should state the medical reasons as well as the personal stress factors. The preferred clinic, for example with a certain therapy concept or treatment focus, can also be recorded as a recommendation in the medical certificate. Due to the so-called wish and choice right health insurance companies must consider the hospital wish of the patients appropriately.

The costs for an approved mother's cure or father's cure - but also for a mother-child cure or father-child cure - are usually borne by the statutory health insurance funds if a medical certificate is available. You have to pay a contribution of 10 euros per day yourself. In addition, the share of travel costs, pocket money and other personal incidental expenses of a cure stay.

If you have private health insurance, please check your contract. Private health insurance companies will only cover the costs of a cure if cures are included in the contract.

Help in filling out the application, selecting a suitable clinic, family assistance for the family at home and the preparations for the cure measure can be obtained from the numerous advice centers of the Müttergenesungswerk, AWO, Caritas, Diakonie, DRK and Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband, among others. The counseling and support is also aimed at fathers. You can find a counseling center near you using the search function on the internet portal of the Müttergenesungswerk. The counseling is free of charge.

https://www.muettergenesungswerk.de/kur-fuer-mich/beratung