By Anne Marjatta Gøystdal
– 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 of 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 by 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 boost 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)
The day after the government announced that the new age limit of 72 years will be introduced from 1 July, went Conservative party congress in to consider removing it entirely.
Off Mats Rønning
Young Conservatives also received majority support for the proposal to consider raising special retirement age in the workplace. Both proposals were adopted against the editorial committee, but with strong support from Senior Conservatives.
Prime Minister Erna Solberg (H) believes it is important to find a balance between the right to stand in job and the desire for a dignified retreat from the labor market.
– Ideally, I believe that there should be no age limit as such, but we must be aware that the right to stand in job will depend that you can actually do your job. Therefore, we do this gradually, she says to NTB.
Not
Parliamentarian Arve Kambe as leader of Labour and Social Affairs Committee, nor supporter of removing the age limit now.
– This is not about the oldest will be longer in their jobs, but their protection against dismissal. But it should go a limit somewhere.
– While I am pleased that the convention has high ambitions to get more seniors into working life, he says to NTB.
Kambe allows the age limit can was raised further, but only after the new rules are evaluated in a few years.
– Parliament has said that it is natural to raise the age limit to 75 years if experience is positive. We think they are, and then it will also be natural to look at whether the age limit should be even higher, he said.
Raised
Age Limit in the workplace, not to be confused with the retirement age was raised from 70 to 72 years in connection with the disputed changes in the Working Environment Act that Parliament treated earlier this year.
Government announced Friday that these changes will take effect July 1.
– I’m happy. We need a speedy implementation of good and important initiatives that provide greater flexibility in the workplace, and more people the opportunity to try their hand at work and to work longer, said Labour and Social Affairs Robert Eriksson (FRP).
The next day passed government partner his words that this age limit can be removed completely.
Critical
The coalition opposition and social partners are skeptical that the age limit be raised so quickly.
– That this proposal hurry introduced will make the new provisions in practice can shift departure time for certain. It is problematic, said Vibeke Hammer Madsen CEO of the parent organization active for Friday’s news. Real however pleased with the introduction of other changes in the Working Environment Act.
At the congress in Right also considering raising special retirement age, opens the way for firefighters, police officers and others who have special age limits in the future may have the opportunity to stay longer in the job.
Norwegian requirements
These decisions were made when congress Saturday mornings treated a so-called big resolution on labor -, knowledge and social policy called “The Norwegian Dream.”
It takes including calls for increased use of wage subsidies, adjustments in transitional benefits, increased focus on mental health as well as requirements that all children must master Norwegian when they start school.
Conservative ordførerkandidat Yngve Brox in Trondheim got moreover congress with them on a formulation that public enterprises should be actively working to recruit people with disabilities.
Party also went on to better cooperation between counseling at the secondary school as well as increased emphasis on school psychologists. (NTB)
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