Presentation at the seminar Housing and services for older people, arranged by Norsk Selskap for Aldersforskning
June 13th 2022, Research Professor Jardar Sørvoll gave the presentation «The Norwegian eldercare model’s key preconditions: housing, services, institutions and staffing” at the seminar: «Housing and services for older people». The seminar was organized by Norsk Selskap for Aldersforskning and took place at the Oslo Metropolitan University. Sørvoll presented results from Norwegian Social Research’s survey on housing for seniors and The Norwegian Research’s Council project CoWorkCare.
Sørvoll presented data on older peoples’ use and need for public eldercare services, collected in a survey conducted among 6049 informants in the CoWorkCare project in March and April 2022. Many of the informants requested services that would make it easier for their care-needing parents to live outside an institution. For instance, 43 % of the respondents in the survey who had mothers that received home care (practical help such as cleaning, washing clothes and/or other household tasks) from the municipality stated that the care their mothers received was insufficient.
Further, a total of 35% of those having mothers that didn’t receive home care services, responded that their mothers needed practical help in their homes from the municipality. Moreover, 25% stated that their mothers needed transport service – without receiving such service. Further, almost 20% reported that their mothers needed the following types of help: home nursing, visiting service, GP visits at home, safety alarms, day services at an elderly care center, and food delivery services. In addition, 13% answered that their mothers needed short-term stays in nursing homes.