Older joke: Ten extra minutes

Ten minutes.

It is the number of minutes that 919 of the elderly in the Municipality of Thisted will get extra cleaning services in the aftermath of the coronakrisen, where more has been done in two months.

It appears by a letter from the local municipality for the elderly.

'The extra help is not permanent, but is offered one time. The ten minutes will be used to clear the help you already receive, extra thoroughly,' says the letter.

the Danish people's ældreordfører Karina Adsbøl believe that the municipality actually makes fun of the elderly, where it believes that ten minutes is equal to a extra thorough cleaning.

- It is totally unacceptable to call ten minutes a extra thorough cleaning, she says,

the Government and political parties has provided the municipalities with the message that needs to be done extra thoroughly clean after several weeks of closure of hjemmeplejens cleaning. The local authorities have even had the assurance that the state will cover the extra expenses.

Why would DF'eren not find themselves in Thisted Municipality's so-called offer.

She is now demanding answers from the health and ældreminister Magnus Heunicke (S), how he will ensure the real sommerrengøring in the elderly.

- When we have agreed that that should be done extra thoroughly clean, it is not something to put ten extra minutes of, say ældreordføreren.

In Thisted recognize the top responsible official in the area, which Tue von Påhlman, that the letter did not look too good.

- There appears only the ten minutes. There is not, of course, solves the task, if it goes beyond ten minutes. I regret that, " he says.

Sundhedsdirektøren stresses, however, that the 25 and older have already got the ten-minute extra help. And they have according to him been satisfied.

- Isn't it a little to make fun of the old. Ten minutes extra after two months of lack of cleaning?

I can very well understand. But the point is just .., so you can make a counter-question: Is it worse to give all 900 persons 10 extra minutes, or is it better to let be, to give somebody something and instead make a hard-nosed individual assessment? I don't think it is.

- You must see it in relation to the way the steering is. The control is actually how to offer the nine minutes for food, a quarter to help with food, etc. That provides we a typical citizens 30 to 45 minutes the third week to the cleaning up to 67 square meters.

Ten minutes extra is still 30 per cent extra time. If that's not enough, they must have more, says Tue von Påhlman.

But the highlighter it is not just that we've got a crazy minutregime to the elderly, when at ten minutes to catch up with two months of cleaning.

- Yes, but you can say, it works in practice. When we encounter things in the minutes, we also ensure that private actors - it is a fritvalgsområde - get the right settlement. From the municipal side, we can calculate what it costs per delivered hour. Therefore, we have the here control. It works in practice, he says.

Thisted closed for cleaning 28. march. 27. may, the older the letter, which they had promised, ten minutes of extra cleaning.

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