“Nursing homes get older doing enough ‘- Telegraaf.nl

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for many older people have too little to do in the nursing home. They can sit inside and not outside. Some have a private room with own stuff to pull in here again. That would ,, inhuman and degrading ” may be, the Board says for Human Rights. ,, Lack of staff should not impede the exit of clients, ” says the college

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the organization, successor to the Equal Treatment Commission, looked at six nursing homes and presented the results Wednesday. It is generally, not bad” and no humiliations detected but,” bottlenecks, the report said.

Little things

it is sometimes little things. One of the studied nursing homes for example, decided that the elderly were not allowed to sleep under their duvet. Instead, they were white covers of the institution. That made it easier to wash the covers. But for the elderly it meant that their own room, in fact, their environment was less own.

,, I really cried about. It’s not my house, my comfortable house, ” said one resident to the researchers. Elsewhere was an older man no help when he had to go to the bathroom because he was wearing something against incontinence. Another resident had even publicly nude walking to the shower on the corridor.

The Elderly Federal ANBO late in a reaction that support the conclusions of the investigation, but also puts critical of the involvement of the college . Director Liane den Haan: ,, In the Netherlands, the Dutch Health Care Inspectorate (IGZ) on the quality of care in health care organizations. I appreciate the attention to human rights in health care, but to ensure that the recommendations end up in the right place and actually lead to improvement, the college needs to the table with the Inspectorate ”

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