Almost two weeks ago, Astrid Krag set aside 170 million kroner for several experiments in municipalities based on a Dutch model called Buurtzog, the newspaper writes.
Krag believes that up to every third municipality will start the transition.
– If too many elderly people experience that their home becomes a railway station because a new face comes in all too often, it becomes unsafe for the elderly, says Astrid Krag.
– Small self-governing teams – as you use it in the Netherlands – is the right grip. It is about getting back to the core of the welfare of the elderly.
Astrid Krag emphasizes, however, that the Dutch model cannot be transferred one by one to Denmark. The individual municipality will have some freedom to organize the work.
The aim of the model is to do away with central management in the elderly sector.
The ambition is to introduce small, self-governing teams, which themselves organize the work so that the care is adapted to the needs of the elderly.
The announcement comes before politicians, employees, professionals and officials from the country’s municipalities on Thursday go to a senior citizens ‘meeting with the municipalities’ association, KL, the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Elderly, Ældre Sagen and the trade union Foa as hosts.
At Ældre Sagen, people are excited. The trade union FOA also welcomes a reorganization of the elderly effort.
Both refer to a pilot project with small, self-governing teams in Ikast-Brande Municipality, where the company behind it has gone bankrupt.
Here, a team comprised seven to nine employees and a maximum of 12. It served a defined local area.
– We have been enthusiastic about the pilot project because our members experience rigid systems. It makes much more sense to establish small teams close to the citizens, says sector chairman of FOA Torben Hollmann.
In the municipalities’ association, KL, the chairman of the health and elderly committee, Jette Skive (DF) from Aarhus, agrees with the minister.
Source: The Nordic Page