GODT Health and care for young people and elderly

Good home care services

Elderly in need of care must have the possibility to live at home for as long as possible. This requires good home care services. Care benefits enable relatives to actively contribute to care to a greater extent. Nursing home residents should be offered a better range of activities and cultural initiatives. This calls for close partnership between the elderly, family and staff.

Elderly couples should be able to live together, even when moving into assisted living or an institution. Dinner is an important well-being component at institutions, making it important that the food is good-tasting and healthy.

Freedom of choice

Bergen should be a good place to live for residents of all ages. Our needs and preferences to live a good life change as we age and Folkets Parti thinks you should have the freedom of choice. Good options and services are more important than who provides them. Whether residents are self-sufficient or require public care, personal development and quality of life are just as invaluable for the elderly as for everyone else. Folkets Parti sees to facilitate more volunteer initiatives – and this should not come at a cost.

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Sufficient nursing home beds

Folkets Parti wants to ensure enough nursing home beds and to improve expertise and permanent staff levels at nursing homes. We want to preserve or establish kitchens at all nursing homes. We also support the construction of a dementia village in Bergen. Offering better services to those who need to live at a nursing home requires that the municipality make it more attractive to work in the healthcare sector.

Quality and comprehensive services for everyone

Health and well-being are essential for a good life. The municipality provides many services and should make everyday life as best as possible for those in need of help. This makes it important to strengthen the general practitioner scheme. The municipality should work together with private and non-profit organisations to offer quality and comprehensive services for everyone. The municipality must preserve and strengthen the municipal health centres and general municipal health services in the city. There must be free parking near the buildings where health and care services are provided in all districts. Healthcare professionals must be offered good parking options.

Improved mental health services

Folkets Parti wants to strengthen psychiatric services and provide prompt treatment as needed. There needs to be a stronger focus on prevention among young people in terms of both substance abuse and mental health. Mental health and suicide prevention efforts must be strengthened and work training and social support aftercare programmes expanded.

Young people experiencing mental health challenges must receive help the same day. Good youth health services must be available in all districts through municipal health centres and easy access mental health support programmes like Ung Arena.

Child welfare services must be strengthened

Child welfare services must be strengthened with more expertise and resources, better follow-up procedures, audio and video recordings of meetings,

User-controlled personal assistance (BPA)

More customised substance abuse treatment

We believe that substance abuse treatment should involve in-house treatment for only a few patients at each location, improved staffing and expertise, as well as the possibility to participate in adapted activities.

BPA is a scheme for individuals with various types of disabilities who need assistance with daily living. Folkets Parti wants to strengthen the BPA scheme. We especially want to reduce the out-of-pocket payment for home care services for BPA users. We also want to adapt restrictions in relation to travel outside of the local municipality with assistance. Individuals with a disability should be eligible for free public transport.