Right wants more dementia villages – Aftenbladet.no

– 75,000 Norwegians living with dementia. Our vision is that everyone should have the opportunity to live with dignity throughout their lives, says Tone Trøen, who leads the Conservative omsorgsutvalg.

At the party congress Saturday, delegates agreed a major resolution on quality and choice in care. A central part is about a shift in the care sector, where it is now emphasized that everyone should be able to stay at home as long as they wish and be self-reliant in everyday life.

One possibility is to build communities that called dementia villages after Dutch model. Work is already underway to build such communities a few places in this country. About four years, the first dementia village stand ready at Lille Toyen in Oslo.

– Does not cost so much more

– I think we’re going to see much more of this. It is about facilitating what is really institution-based care in a way that resembles more of it to stay home. That is exactly what these patients need. There are communities instead of long nursing corridors, says Trøen said.

Dementia villages in the Netherlands has received international attention. A wide variety of Norwegian politicians and leaders from the care sector has also been visiting for a closer look at them. Residents live in a village-like neighborhood that allows them to live a normal, active everyday. There is a café, gardens and shops and streets where residents can walk around freely.

Trøen believes it is realistic to achieve a restructuring of care. It does not cost that much more money or require so much more resources, she argues.

– Patients living in smaller units, and everyday adapted them. It creates more tranquility, you can use less sedatives. So it turns out that it’s not about having more people at work, but that one has the right skills, she said.

More competence

Right also decided to implement a nurse lift in the care sector and ensure training of employees without health education. Today about 35,000 of them working with need of care without health education. It should also be clearer competence requirements for managers, according to the Conservatives.

The total package is important to make care better, emphasizes Trøen.

– We will do additional measures . One is to raise competence. But it can also be about building teams around the patient. That means getting a nurse to work with the nutritionist, doctor and physiotherapist. (© NTB)