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Nursing home
Information for professionals regarding nursing and day care facilities for the elderly
Nursing homes and daycare facilities for the elderly
At the end of March 2022, Iceland Health (SÍ), the Association of Companies in Welfare Services (SFV), and the Association of Icelandic Local Authorities signed extensions to agreements on nursing home services. The agreements were then extended until March 31, 2025 (see the link below). Agreements are made with each nursing home individually, and the contracts are consistent. They originally took effect on January 1, 2020.
Extensions were again signed at the end of March 2025 for a short term, with a provision stating that the agreements would automatically be extended until March 31, 2026, if the contracting parties had jointly signed a declaration regarding certain projects that the parties agreed to work on collaboratively. That declaration was signed in July 2025, and therefore the agreements are now valid until March 2026.
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Price list for day-care for the elderly by parties without a price agreement
New price list has taken effect for services provided by day care institutions that are not on a fixed budget in 2026 and are without a price agreement.
The price list includes daily charges for services to health insured individuals in day-care facilities provided by institutions that are not on a fixed budget in 2026 and are without an agreement with Iceland Health.
The amount of payment participation for users of day care services is stated in the regulation on day care for the elderly with subsequent amendments.
The price list specifies prices and the number of spaces that determines the scope of the service covered by the payment participation of Iceland Health. The price list is valid from January 1st 2026.
In March 2022, the rules on subsidies for assistive devices for residents in nursing homes were changed. Iceland Health now pays subsidies for certain assistive devices to residents in nursing homes that were previously in the hands of the nursing homes themselves to provide and pay for. This applies for example to certain assistive devices for respiratory and circulatory therapy, support devices, stoma devices, walking grinds, wheelchairs and accessories with them and computers for specialized communication.
The amendment includes that a person in a home who uses certain assistive devices, such as this one, will keep them when he moves into the home, instead of the nursing home providing him with other assistive devices instead.
The said changes are provided for by regulation no. 239/2022 amending regulation no. 427/213 on payments to elderly institutions for healthcare services and regulation no. 238/2022 amending regulation no. 760/2021 on subsidies for assistive devices.
It is pointed out that nursing homes apply for the relevant assistive devices on behalf of their residents through Gagnagátt. If there is no 100% payment participation by Iceland Health, the difference is paid by the nursing homes.
Tryggingastofnun is responsible for calculating the cost-of-living/stay fee for residents in nursing homes. Tryggingastofnun receives the cost-of-living of residents electronically and publishes information in the home database, as well as deducting the amounts from the monthly settlements with the homes. The homes then collect the cost-of-living from residents.
On Tryggingastofnun website you can find information on calculating cost participation/stay price and more.
Overview of the number of spaces in nursing homes and day care homes, along with the square meters of the homes:
Only available in Icelandic.
Only available in Icelandic.