The elderly at Mobacka are entitled to their accommodation - but can still be forced to relocate

It was in 2015 that the municipality made the decision to discontinue the elderly residents Mobacka in Lillhärdal, the Fjällglimten in Vemdalen and the places on the Senior in Sveg that referred to so-called special housing. These savings measures are now beginning to be noticed.

A clear example is the elderly residence Mobacka in Lillhärdal, where there are now only four 90-year-olds left. They stay there because they can cope with home service. But all those who did not, those with so-called special housing, they are no longer left. Some have died, the others have been forced to relocate to Sveg.

The relocation was carried out despite a promise from the municipality that all the old people would be allowed to stay alive. The municipality expected that the elderly residents would be emptied in three years. When that was not the case, the promise was torn down. Hear more about it in the clip above.

In addition, Mobacka in Lillhärdal has been placed on the Blocket, as even the municipal housing company Härjegårdar, need to get more money and therefore sell out part of its stock. This is despite the fact that four elderly people still live there. But they have so-called "tenure rights". They are entitled to their apartments, but if the new owner does not want to continue the elderly housing they can still be forced to move. However, in such cases, the property owner must offer them an equivalent accommodation.

- What we have had in Härjedalen is that we have granted special housing, what was previously called long-term care, to everyone who had some kind of need for housing because that is just what we had in the assortment and then it becomes very expensive if you have it the form of all inclusive if one does not really have that need. The idea is to widen the range a bit, says Lars-Gunnar Nordlander.

That is to say, better align the resuspend with the needs.