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They will invest five billion more per year, if they reach the government.
On Friday at 10 am, the Labor Party will present its proposed program for the period 2021-2025.
The online newspaper has gained access to parts of the proposal, which shows how Labor leader Jonas Gahr Støre, who heads the program committee, will strengthen care for the elderly.
The draft program states, among other things, that the Labor Party:
- Strengthen the comprehensive offer in care for the elderly, with a door to municipal services.
- Ensure competence in food and nutrition in Norwegian nursing homes, facilitate the promotion of nutritious food inside and outside the institutions, and encourage eating arrangements with friends.
- Provide adequate places in nursing homes and places of care 24 hours a day for those in need.
- Ensure that married couples or cohabitants who so wish can live together in the last years of life when one has had a place in a nursing home and the other also depends on care services.
Read all about the Ap Seniors Initiative in the draft program here:
More than five billion annually
The online newspaper has spoken with Labor Party elders’ political spokesperson Tuva Moflag.
– How much will Aps investment for seniors cost?
During this period, we have spent around five billion more annually in hospitals and municipalities, and financing of the elderly policy is part of this. Details should be prepared in the annual state budgets when we enter government, Moflag tells Nettavisen.
In the Oslo budget, which was presented on Wednesday, cuts in care for the elderly. The Nursing Home Agency must pay NOK 25 million in austerity measures. A NOK 18.5 million mark reduction has also been introduced for the nursing home sector. This reduction will increase to NOK 103.5 million in 2024.
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Tuva Moflag (Labor Party) is a high-ranking political spokesperson in the Labor Party (Labor Party). The 41-year-old has been sitting in the Storting on the Aps Akershus bench since 2017.
Photo: Labor Party
Cutter in Oslo – blame the government
– You have your hand on the wheel in Oslo, which cuts into the care of the elderly. How do you explain that?
– It is not unique to Oslo that they have to set very strict priorities. This shows that the government allocates very little money to municipalities, Moflag tells Nettavisen.
– In addition, we see examples of how the government does not sufficiently compensate for the disadvantages associated with municipal mergers and the corona pandemic, he explains.
In Oslo, the districts are responsible for the care of the elderly and some other services. In 2021 an estimated 146.8 million in cuts to districts, which will increase to 370 million in 2022 and 672 million in 2023.
Read all about the Oslo budget here
– Not fully funded by the government
-But what credibility do you have at the national level if it doesn’t happen in the capital?
– Each municipality is responsible for offering a wide range of services. When it comes to caring for the elderly, we have had a number of “staff rules” growing up, which are not fully funded by the government, putting additional pressure on elderly care in municipalities, He says.
– So what responsibility does the Labor Party have in the development of Oslo?
– It is first of all the city council that must respond to this, but they are doing some good things, such as expanding the scheme with pink buses, in which we have been inspired at the national level. But then, each municipality is at the mercy of the framework, emphasizes Moflag.
The full program proposal for the Labor Party will be presented on Friday at 10 am.
Støre hopes to become the winner
Labor leader Jonas Gahr Støre hopes to become the winner after the elections on September 13 next year.
– I have a strong ambition for the Labor Party to rise up and for us to get a new majority, which happens to be there at the polls. Then we can get a new government and then I’ll be ready for that job, Støre told Nettavisen on September 15.
Mens:
– It will be exciting all the way! Norwegian elections are regular, and this will also be the case.
Watch a video interview with Labor leader Jonas Gahr Støre here:
– How are you going to handle it, Støre?
– Focus on politics and a program that ensures that we will get more people to work, that it is safe to work in a time of great change, a stronger welfare state (…) and that we can face climate challenges so that both emissions are being cut and new jobs created, replied Støre Nettavisen.
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