Changing of nursing homes suspended for the time being

9.11.2021 10.42

Due to the coronavirus and the challenging personnel situation of nursing homes, persons already living at nursing homes cannot currently change nursing homes.

We offer 24-hour service housing to older residents of Espoo who can no longer live at home. 24-hour service housing is applied for based on a personal service needs assessment carried out by Nestori – Guidance and Service Counselling for Senior Citizens.

As of 2020, persons who have been granted a place in 24-hour service housing have been able to personally choose the nursing home that they wish to move into. Before this, each client was designated a nursing home by Nestori.

Available nursing home places reserved for persons who are not yet living in a nursing home

If there are no places available in the client’s nursing home of choice, the client has the option of continuing to live at home while waiting for a place to become available. If the client is unable to continue living at home while waiting for a nursing home place to become available, we designate a place for them in another nursing home. The client can then move to the nursing home of their choice later once a place becomes available.

However, due to the coronavirus and the challenging personnel situation of nursing homes, persons already living in nursing homes cannot change nursing homes for the time being. At the start of the epidemic, we restricted the changing of nursing homes to prevent the disease from spreading between nursing homes. At present, we cannot make additional nursing home places available due to a personnel shortage.

We are currently designating all nursing home places that become available to persons who have not yet been designated a place in a nursing home. This way we can ensure that those who are most vulnerable receive the care that they need. Because of this, those already living in nursing homes may have to wait for an extended period to change nursing homes. We estimate that moving between nursing homes will become possible from the end of January 2022 onwards.

There are currently approximately 50 persons waiting to change nursing homes. There are nearly 40 nursing homes in Espoo, which provide housing to nearly 1,370 older persons in need of around-the-clock care.