Our care and support needs vary at different stages of our lives. However, our basic human needs remain the same: social interaction, safety, activities and, when necessary, care. These conditions being met makes it possible for us to be happy at various stages of life.
SFP wants elderly care to be close to where people are, and to ensure it is high in quality. You must be allowed to live at home as long as you want to and are able to, and various forms of residential services must be available nearby. We must strive to boost people’s functional ability, for instance through senior exercise. We appreciate the work of family carers and want to ensure their well-being. Family carers must be treated equally and receive the support and relief they need. Foundations and associations provide invaluable contributions to society in many parts of our country, for instance within health promotion and the maintenance of senior residences.
SFP wants:
- to ensure all elderly people are offered a safe residence when they can no longer cope with living at home
- to safeguard home care services, ensuring the elderly receive high-quality, timely services in the right format
- to ensure there is a broad selection of residential options for the elderly
- to ensure married and cohabiting couples are offered residential services together
- to ensure targeted preventive home visits are made to all elderly inhabitants of the wellbeing services counties
- to improve the early diagnosis of memory disorders and to ensure care is provided as close to where people live as possible
- to make the tax credit for household expenses more extensively applicable to home care services
- to ensure family carers are properly valued and given more opportunities for time off and rehabilitation
- to establish senior health clinics in all the wellbeing services counties
- to have service vouchers for residential care supplementing public services
