Household assistance (Wmo).
Household help will change in the course of 2025. Read more information in the article: Household support from Wmo changes . |
Domestic help is, for example, help with cleaning, tidying up or doing the dishes. You can hire someone for this yourself.
Do you need help with your household chores and are you unable to solve the problem yourself due to an illness or disability? Then you can report this to the municipality.
Domestic help cannot be used for:
- Cleaning outside windows.
- Taking care of pets.
- Maintaining the garden.
- Doing the shopping.
Research into what you are still physically capable of
Examination by physiotherapist
If you apply for Wmo domestic help, the municipality will often first make an appointment for you with a physiotherapist. This is a physiotherapist from HRC Powerful Ageing. The physiotherapist will examine how you are doing. What can you still do and what can't you do? The Wmo department can use the physiotherapist's advice to better determine what kind of help you need.
What can the physiotherapist recommend?
The physiotherapist will investigate whether we can help you with a training. The training is specifically focused on your daily activities. This is called 'Powerful Ageing' (which translates into Dutch: 'becoming powerfully older'). You will train for more muscle strength, more lifting power and standing more firmly.
If the physiotherapist thinks that you can do your household independently again with this training, you can participate in Powerful Ageing for free. Domestic help is then not necessary. It is possible that the physiotherapist thinks that you cannot participate in Powerful Ageing. In that case, the employee of the Wmo department will determine whether you will receive domestic help.
Are you obliged to participate?
Do you want help from the Wmo? Then it is necessary that you participate in the study, if you receive an invitation for this. Are you, according to the study, able to participate in Powerful Ageing but do you not want to? Then the employee of the Wmo department will determine whether you will receive domestic help. The employee can decide not to give you domestic help.
The research is being done by HRC Powerful Ageing on behalf of the municipality. More information can be found on the website of HRC Powerful Ageing .
Step-by-step plan for requesting household help:
Read the step-by-step application process.
Other information:
Learn more about home help.