Professional nursing and care, 1 to 12 hours a day, 365 days a year. Measurement of blood pressure, pulse and temperature. Monitoring and provision of medication. Help with dementia patients, Alzheimer's patients in everyday life.

Our service company brings helping people to those who need help. We do this very professionally, coordinating the individual needs of our clients with the appropriate professional qualifications of our employees.

Spitex Untergäu AG

Wound care, injections, dressing changes, infusions, assistance with personal hygiene, delivery service for medication and care materials

Studies on caregiving relatives

Valuable pillars of the healthcare system

Tens of thousands of women and men care for family members in Switzerland. Without these free services, healthcare costs would rise sharply. But the helpers themselves need support. Politicians have now also recognized this.

Time and monetary valuation of care and support provided by relatives

In Switzerland, relatives perform a total of around 64 million hours of unpaid work for the care and nursing of loved ones. The value of this work amounts to 3.5 billion francs. For NPO-Spitex, the focus is on care security.

SwissAgeCare-2010 - Caregiving relatives in German-speaking Switzerland

Relatives play an important role in caring for people in need of care at home. However, the framework conditions for this care and the problems are hardly known. The Swiss Spitex Association has therefore commissioned a scientific study

Media release

AgeCare-SuisseLatine - Caregiving relatives in Latin and German-speaking Switzerland

Study on family caregivers of older people in French-speaking Switzerland/Ticino and comparison with German-speaking Switzerland

Media release