Tag: elderly
More and more cases of flu, many elderly people are affected
In some hospitals, the special elderly wards are full, says Esther Cornegé-Blokland, chair of the Dutch Association for Clinical Geriatrics (NVKG). In the Utrecht Diakonessenhuis, for example, the largest elderly…
Animals in nursing homes should increase the quality of life of the elderly
Involuntary loneliness is something that more and more elderly people experience. Something that increases the risks of, among other things, mental illness.At the elderly home Vardaga Norrgården in Sollentuna, they…
Pensioners buy food for the elderly and disabled in Lövånger
The municipality stopped buying food – then the pensioners moved in share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left full screen Iris Karlsson in the grocery store. Photo: Patrick Trägårdh The municipality stopped buying food…
Minister for the Elderly Anna Tenje concerned after alarm about 1177
Several nurses at 1177 in the Stockholm Region testify to time pressure and to a management that set the goal that conversations should not last longer than six minutes. But…
Messy elderly man hit shop employee with piece of meat
share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left full screen A man is suspected of assault after hitting a woman with a piece of meat. Archive image. Photo: Thomas Winje Øijord/NTB/TT A 75-year-old man is…
Fraudulent conned elderly people over the phone – prosecuted
This was revealed in SVT’s Uppdrag review last spring, as in an attention-grabbing program with the help of the hacker’s material was able to show how the fraudsters did in…
Libraries warn of fraudsters – tricking the elderly
share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left full screen Several people, all over 80 years of age, have been victims of telephone scams where the fraudster pretended to work in a library. Archive image.…
League defrauded elderly out of millions – prosecuted after secret recordings of hackers
On Monday, charges will be brought against four people for gross fraud. In the spring of 2024, Uppdrag review was able to show how a league stole large sums of…
Elderly man missing – helicopter search underway
A major rescue effort has been launched in a bay outside Södertälje, it reports The Express. The Maritime and Air Rescue Center is searching for an elderly man who has…
Elderly people had to defecate hanging in slings
share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left full screen Genre picture. Woman in a nursing home. Photo: Kallestad, Gorm / NTB Users of a nursing home were forced to defecate hanging from slings above…