Minister Conny Helder is changing course in elderly care, with more prevention, more senior housing, more technology, but sometimes also with fewer nurses on a ward. Otherwise, she says, further impoverishment threatens.
Niels Klaassen, Ellen van Gaalen
04-07-22, 03:00
According to Conny Helder (63), at least 50,000 extra homes will have to be built for the elderly who need care in the coming years. These are not traditional nursing home places, but homes or apartments especially for the elderly where care is arranged. In order to give care institutions more air, the strict staff standard (at least two care employees for every eight nursing home residents) is also partly being abandoned – ‘further developed’ in Helder’s words. In the long run, 400 million euros should be saved in this way. That is stated in the plans that VVD minister for Long-term Care Conny Helder sends to the House of Representatives today.
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