Fewer people in shared nursing home rooms

The Netherlands still has 6,000 shared rooms in its nursing homes but that is a third lower than a year ago, outgoing health minister Ab Klink said on Wednesday.


Efforts have been made to reduce the number of shared rooms in nursing homes and institutions for the handicapped since 1998. At that time, there were 28,000 four and six person wards.
But improvements in facilities at institutions are lagging behind, the minister said. Half of the rooms should have been changed by 2008 but that has still not happened.
Nursing homes are private institutions financed from the government’s AWBZ health insurance scheme.

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