Older people prefer to have a baby grow old independently in their own familiar environment and live a nice and meaningful life. To make this possible, Minister De Jonge (VWS) today presents the programme Langer Home. The Cabinet invests there over the coming years 340 million euros In.
The programme was sent to the Dutch Parliament by Minister De Jonge and Minister Ollongren (BZK).
The number of older people is increasing in the Netherlands. Are there currently some 1.3 million over 75s, by 2030 this figure has increased to 2.1 million. The number not only increases, the elderly also grow older and remain vital longer.Increasingly, they therefore want to stay at home in their own familiar environment. 92% of the 75-plussers currently live independently at home.
In the programme Langer Home The programme focuses on three main areas of action, each with an integrated, personalised approach.
Good support and care at home
To help older people live in their homes for longer, it is important to strengthen their self-reliance. Therefore, a national network •Vitaler ageing is created and agreements are made with health insurance companies and municipalities about local and regional cooperation so that professionals in the neighbourhood can work together as a team around vulnerable elderly people, on the basis of a personal support and care plan. Also, innovative digital home care (eHealth) with two new subsidy schemes that allow the application of new technology and facilitate the digital data exchange between clients and healthcare providers and between healthcare providers.
And if the home is not temporary for any reason, we need to provide suitable and appropriate temporary residences and smooth flow. That is why more money is being made available to provide the right geriatric expertise at the right time.
Carers and volunteers
Carers and volunteers The need to keep older people living in their own environment is indispensable. However, care usually requires a lot of them, and a large part of them experience overload. More care providers and volunteers need to know that they are not alone and that there is support for them as well. To make carers and volunteers aware of support opportunities such as retirement care, various awareness campaigns will be launched. To improve the provision of support and retirement care a national consultant will be provided with grace care, and the application of support for family carers will be facilitated. Experiments are being carried out on the
Living
Older people who need care or support can in many cases remain perfectly independent. However, the living space and surroundings must allow this. Adjustments or relocation is sometimes necessary, for example because there are too few shops nearby, or because the property is simply not easily accessible to a rollator. In the recently presented National Housing Agenda, cabinet and organisations of housing corporations, builders and residents are committed to building annual minors 75 000 homes. This includes sufficient supply of suitable or customizable homes and the possibilities for new forms of housing. This requires sufficient supply of suitable dwellingsThe local community will be able to identify how supply and demand are linked locally and what the local housing needs are, a support team will help them. A community of practice and a knowledge programme will be created to stimulate the creation of more new (clustered) forms of housing care, and an innovation scheme will be introduced to help older people live properly.
Implementation
To implement the Langer Home programme, the Cabinet will invest over € 340 million in the coming years. Most of this will be devoted to the three innovation schemes that allow the application of new technology, facilitate digital data exchange between clients and care providers and between healthcare providers, and encourage the development of new housing arrangements. The Langer Programme runs at home until 2021. The Rijk will provide guidance and frameworks with the program, but will further develop and implement it in close collaboration with municipalities, health insurance companies, housing corporations, healthcare providers and other stakeholders such as elderly organisations.
The Langer Home programme, together with the program "One against Loneliness and Home in the Nursing Home," is part of the Elder Care Pact which, at the beginning of 2018, committed dozens of parties to improving care for our elderly by fighting loneliness, improving the quality of nursing home care and making it possible to live at home.
Source: Government of the Netherlands, 18/06/2018
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