Son Niklas Critical: Had Living Ten years to • Almost 4,000 elderly people were rejected by 2024
Niklas Bergendal takes up a bunch of wrinkled jackets from the sofa in the living room in the house on Lidingö that he grew up in. But the house is not only his childhood home, but it has also become a death estate which he now has to empty when his father Roland Bergendal passed away in December last year.
– Now it’s time to empty the estate and leave Dad’s all clothes to the ants, it’s very nice jackets from his time. He has lived here since the 70s, so there are stuff since then in the whole house and it is packed, says Niklas Bergendal.
Got rejected twice
According to the son, Roland Bergendal, who turned 87 years old, had applied for the last two years to move to a special accommodation twice, but has been rejected both times. He wanted to move to a retirement home when he felt alone, but also because he felt that he needed to be close to care.
– He had a death anxiety and has had many heartbees so he wanted to be close to people and close to health care around the clock, says Niklas Bergendal.
Broke the femur in the home
But he was rejected and once when he was at home he tripped and broke his thigh. After his hospital stay, he hoped to move to a short -term accommodation, but he got rejected again – and well at home he rolled again.
– Day number two he wanted to go to the toilet, but then he fell again and had to go to the hospital. Then he had such great infections that he had to stay there. Half a month later, he died in the suites of it. I think he had to move somewhere with a social life he would have felt much better and certainly had another ten years, says Niklas Bergendal.
Nearly 4,000 got rejected in 2024
Roland Bergendal is not alone in refusing to move to the elderly. According to TV4 Nyheter’s response that we received from 196 out of 290 municipalities, 3994 people were rejected to move to a special accommodation last year, which is 11.84 percent. In some individual cases, these may be people who have searched twice during the course of a year, but that belongs to the unusual.
The pensioners’ national organization, PRO, now thinks that age should be part of the assessment made in a decision on whether or not a person should be allowed to move to a special accommodation.
– When you get older you often feel insecure in your home, you may be alone and isolated and it should weigh heavily in an aid assessment, says Carina Benjaminsson, expert care Pro.