Aarhus 2027 budget funds dementia care

Aarhus 2027 budget funds dementia care and cushions health reform costs

Aarhus City Council parties have signed the 2027 budget, which sets aside DKK 12.5 million a year for dementia care and has the wider municipality cover half of a DKK 109 million annual health reform loss for Health and Care.

17 September 2026 by Robert Eduard Antal, facts checked automatically against the source · updated 23 October 2026

Key facts

The budget sets aside DKK 12.5 million a year for four years for a general uplift of dementia care.

Half of the financial loss from the health reform will be shared across the wider municipality.

DKK 12.3 million is allocated to create up to 10 specialised places for residents with needs beyond ordinary nursing homes.

A majority of the parties on Aarhus City Council have signed the municipality’s budget agreement for 2027. For the Health and Care department, the deal funds dementia care, support for residents with outward-reacting behaviour, more diverse elderly care and youth jobs in nursing homes, and softens part of the cost of the health reform. Even so, the coming years will still require difficult priorities for the department.

Health reform loss shared

The Health and Care department faced an extra bill of DKK 109 million a year from 2029 because the health reform moves a number of welfare tasks from Aarhus Municipality to Region Midtjylland. With the budget agreement, the parties have agreed that the wider municipality will contribute half of this loss.

The agreement does not solve all of the department’s financial problems. The existing budget model adds money for the growing number of older residents, but the social percentage, the common contribution and the remaining reform loss mean that major priorities will still be needed.

Dementia and complex needs

DKK 12.5 million a year over four years for a general uplift of dementia care.
DKK 2.5 million a year for preventive work with residents with outward-reacting behaviour, to give earlier and better support.
DKK 12.3 million as a one-off amount to set up to 10 specialised places for residents who need settings other than those ordinary nursing homes can offer.

“These are some of the most vulnerable people in our municipality, and today we do not always have the right settings to help them,” said Metin Lindved Aydin, the councillor for Health and Care.

Diversity, young staff and other items

DKK 2 million a year from 2027 to 2030 goes to new health and well-being initiatives and more diverse communities, with part of the effort aimed at vulnerable minorities in nursing homes and elderly care in general. A further DKK 1 million a year from 2027 to 2030 funds part-time jobs for young people, which is expected to make room for around 45 more young workers. The aim is more meetings between generations, more life in nursing homes, and more young people discovering work with older people.

The agreement also includes DKK 3.5 million a year for staff recruitment and DKK 750,000 a year for residents with late effects of concussion. The parties agreed that the House of Welfare Technology will be realised, and the operation of four to five nursing homes is to be tendered in the coming years as self-governing or private nursing homes.

Health and Care runs 53 nursing homes, delivers around 60,000 home care visits a week to almost 7,000 residents, and has over 7,000 employees.

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