Regulation on Nursing Homes and Elderly Care and Rehabilitation Centers
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This regulation sets the operating rules for public nursing homes and elderly care and rehabilitation centers run by Turkey’s Ministry of Family and Social Services. It defines who can receive care, how applications are reviewed, how residents are placed, and what physical, health, safety, accessibility, staffing, and service standards these facilities must meet. The main practical change is a more structured care model. Older people are grouped by age, health status, dependency level, and urgency, with priority given to those who are abandoned, neglected, abused, or unable to live independently without support. Facilities must use individual care plans, risk classes, accessible rooms, safety systems, health units, isolation rooms, and clearer internal committees for admissions, care planning, discipline, and case review.
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Key Changes
- Creates a four-level elderly living and care structure, from independent nursing home residents to advanced heavy-care residents needing continuous medical support.
- Introduces risk classes for admission priority, with urgent placement for abandoned, neglected, abused, or unsupported dependent older people.
- Requires facilities to meet detailed accessibility, safety, hygiene, health unit, isolation room, kitchen, laundry, room, and emergency infrastructure standards.
Obligations
What this law requires
Ministry-affiliated nursing homes and elderly care and rehabilitation centers must provide services in a manner that respects residents’ dignity, reputation, beliefs, privacy, individual needs, human rights, and fundamental freedoms, and must take necessary measures to ensure a peaceful and safe care environment.
Facilities must record information and data about elderly residents and services, enter such data into the information system, and ensure statistical studies and reports are prepared using clear, plain, and understandable language.
Facilities must protect personal data belonging to elderly residents and their relatives in accordance with Turkey’s Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698.
Facilities must comply with Turkish Standards Institution TS 9111 accessibility standards and arrange all units used by elderly residents according to residents’ health and access needs.
Facilities must maintain a garden suitable for meeting residents’ physical and social needs and must create appropriate rooms and workshops for occupational and activity therapies aimed at improving mental, cognitive, and manual skills.