Norwegian Directorate of Health: Infection in nursing homes is increasing
45% of Norwegian municipalities report that the situation in nursing homes and care homes is challenging. The number of infection cases is now increasing at…
45% of Norwegian municipalities report that the situation in nursing homes and care homes is challenging. The number of infection cases is now increasing at…
If one is to succeed in limiting coronavirus in nursing homes, more people must be employed in full-time positions. That is the conclusion of a…
The Norwegian government’s advice for nursing home visits will change from next week in nursing homes where the residents have been vaccinated. “It will be…
On Monday, December 28, the first nursing home residents in Oslo will receive a corona vaccine, the municipality announced on Christmas Eve. “We are ready…
Five nursing homes in Oslo have been selected for corona vaccinations between Christmas and New Year. The first doses will probably be given on Monday….
When the COVID-19 vaccine arrives in Norway, the nursing homes will be ready to start the vaccination, the Nursing Homes Agency in Oslo promises. “We…
Oslo Municipality asks residents of nursing homes not to go home at Christmas, out of consideration for their own risk of infection and the risk…
The practice of placing young people in institutions for the elderly against their will has become common in several municipalities. Now, more politicians want to…
The last announced outbreak of the Corona virus at a health facility in Norway was at the beginning of July. In week 27, there was…
In a new and comprehensive survey, eight out of ten nurses say they are afraid of infecting the elderly in nursing homes with the Coronavirus….
Employees at 26 out of 46 nursing homes in Oslo municipality have been diagnosed with coronavirus infection. Seven residents have died. Oslo Municipality has tested…
Aftenposten has examined 128,000 non-conformities in Norwegian nursing homes from last year. 13,000 of them are about violence, threats and exploitation. Nonconformities are recorded when…
Many nursing homes lack air conditioning, and in some places it can reach up to 34 degrees inside of patient rooms, according to NRK. It…
Solberg wants to diminish disparities between nursing homes Prime Minister Erna Solberg is well underway with the election campaign. The Conservatives now wish to introduce…
Oslo disregards the cheapest bid for elderly care Deputy Leader of the Norwegian Labour Party (Ap), Hadia Tajik, denotes it as exemplary when the City…
A new survey reveals that 1420 Norwegian elderly citizens can’t enter nursing homes due to a lack of space. The Norwegian Directorate of Health…
A nursing home in Nordland has been charged with violence against a 90 year old woman who was living there. According to NRK news,…
Ap wants to let students stay cheap at nursing homes Labour suggests that students stay cheap at nursing homes in return for spending time with…
Older people now spend a shorter time in hospitals than before, and twice as many die in a nursing home now, by comparison to the…
The Discrimination Ombud believes that Blidensol nursing home in Stavanger is breaking the law by denying employees the opportunity to wear the hijab at work….