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full screen An 85-year-old woman with dementia had to take care of her own medication. Archive image. Photo: Mickan Mörk/TT
An 85-year-old woman with dementia in Luleå had to take care of her own medication despite doctors deciding that the medication should be locked up and taken care of by home care.
Now IVO, the Inspectorate for Care and Care, is criticizing the municipality and believes that it failed as a care provider and did not follow the routines for drug handling, NSD writes.
Relatives raised the alarm as early as 2021 that the medication did not work and the daughter made a report to IVO last year after she tried on several occasions to contact those responsible for home care and home health care.
According to the doctor’s decision, home care would visit the woman four times a day and give her the medicine, a decision that was later revoked as the municipality believes that the woman did not want the medicine locked up.