Accommodation prices in private nursing homes in Una-Sana Canton are high, while most retirees receive minimal pensions that do not allow them to cover their stay in such facilities.
This gap significantly makes it easier for older people to access adequate care and safety in the third age.
About 60 percent of pensioners in Una-Sana Canton receive minimum pensions that amount to less than 600 marks. Most of them cannot afford the services of the nursing home.
No Funds for Hardout About Elderly
Before the war, in Bihać, the opening of the home for retirees, but the building, owned by the Federal Institute for Pio, due to financial and legal problems is not yet in operation.
“My information says Neither the city of Bihać nor canton do not invest in something that is someone else. We are again not to deal with this problem. FTV.
The price of accommodation in one of the private nursing homes is about 2,000 marks per month, depending on the user’s health. The Chamber currently operates at full capacity, and from the administration state that most costs are most often covered by children of home users.
“They are mostly children working abroad that can help their parents have a lot of pensioners who pay their own pension, so that they are mostly responsible for their stay here, as regards to the financial work,” explains ines Alagić, director of the nursing home Villa Adriana.
No financial assistance of children older could not afford home
Although they highlight great satisfaction when it comes to the services of the native home in which they are staying, they state that without the financial assistance of their children, they could not afford.
“I wouldn’t, but they’re happy to pay. I’m happy, I’m really overwhelmed, I never shot to go home,” says Ajka Mahmić, the beneficiary of the nursing home Villa Adriana.
“No, that it is not children, I would not. No, but some children, then. I’m happy, every honor,” Ana Grgić said, the nursing house of Villa Adriana.
Prices of accommodation in nursing homes for many people of the third age are too high and represent a serious burden for their budget. At the same time, the number of elderly people who need daily assistance and medical care is constantly growing. Many of them do not have financial support for covering accommodation costs. From the Association of Pensioners of the Una-Sana Canton, it is necessary for the competent institutions to ensure the system of co-financing, and consider the possibility of opening public homes for old and exhausted persons.
