Step 2 EU-Rights on Older People – Quality

Transcript:Step 2 EU-Rights on Older People – Quality:
Step 2 EU-Rights on Older People – Quality Framework – Activity 2 (Long Version) WeDO for the Wellbeing and Dignity of Older people With the support of the Lifelong Learning programme of the European Union The WeDO project A European project (2010-2012) co-financed by the European Commission Led by a steering group composed of 18 partners from 12 European Union Member States Aim: set up a European partnership of European, national and regional/local stakeholders committed to improving the quality of services for older people in need of care and assistance and to fight elder abuse Ended in December 2012 with the launch of this European Quality Framework for long-term care services Question 1 Which form of discrimination is experienced the most throughout Europe? Age C. Gender Race 1. Respectful of human rights and dignity The rights of older people are the same as for any other age group. A service has to respect the human dignity of the older person, and should be provided without discrimination. “One of our residents was unable to speak to us about his wishes. His voice was his wife who visited him every day. One morning the situation of this old man was very bad. We were sure, that he would die within the next hours. We informed his wife who insisted on hospitalization for her husband although a doctor told her that her husband´s condition was so bad that he probably would not survive the transport. When a nurse asked her how her husband would decide she became very angry and told us that he could not decide and she wanted hospitalization. Some minutes after, the paramedics came back to tell us that our resident had died in front of the nursing home in the ambulance. The wife was then uncertain whether she had made the right decision.” 1. Respectful of human rights and dignity - Good practice Respect for homosexual elderly people - ANBO Roze (The Netherlands) ANBO Roze is a working group and advisory board within ANBO. Its task is to fight and to guarantee the interests of homosexual elderly people. The Roze Loper is a certificate for homes for the elderly that have a good policy toward homosexual elderly people so that they can feel safe and at home in these houses. Link: http://www.anbo.nl/subtopic.asp?TID=2&SID=79 Question 2 How many older people (+65 years old) are living in Belgium? 857.145 older people 1.598.568