The association has contacted the Danish Nurses’ Council and the Danish Regions to get the dementia area exempted in the same way as, for example, the cancer and corona area.
– Every single week counts. And a conflict that delays the dementia investigation and postpones follow-up on a dementia investigation indefinitely will have a negative impact on far too many patients and relatives, writes the Alzheimer’s Association’s director, Nis Peter Nissen.
Among the strike-affected units are four places where nurses are involved in diagnosing dementia.
This applies to the Memory Clinic at Rigshospitalet, the Dementia Clinic on Funen, the Memory Clinic in Slagelse and the Medical Outpatient Clinic at Kolding Hospital.
According to the Alzheimer’s Association, the four assessment units account for more than 25 percent of the almost 10,000 annual reports for dementia in Denmark.
– We naturally understand that the Danish model in the labor market involves a risk of conflict, and that a conflict in the health area can have negative consequences for patients, writes the Alzheimer’s Association.
But the association finds it “very unfortunate” that it has not exempted “the most vulnerable patients”.
The Alzheimer’s Association also fears that people with dementia in care centers will be affected by the conflict.
According to the association, there are 1326 residents in the nursing homes that have been selected for the conflict.
– Dementia patients who receive treatment, care and nursing in nursing homes that are covered by the conflict will similarly have an increased risk of serious and irreversible negative consequences of the lack of treatment, care and nursing during the conflict, writes Nis Peter Nissen.
Source: The Nordic Page