Authorities not ready for a surge in dementia cases
Just under half, 49 percent, of Norway’s authorities are not prepared for a doubling in dementia patients, which is expected to occur in the future due to the country’s ageing population.
Some 48 percent said they were sufficiently prepared, according to the survey by Sentio on behalf of Nasjonalforeningen for folkehelsen, a charity organisation that combats dementia and cardiovascular disease.
“It is critical that the municipalities act now to equip themselves better. People with dementia and their relatives cannot wait any longer,” Tone Poulsson Torgersen from the organisation told Norwegian newswire NTB.
Authorities in western Norway felt best equipped to handle the increase in dementia, while municipalities in northern Norway said they felt least prepared.
Norway’s first female party leader dead
The first leader of the Socialist Left Party (SV) and the first female leader of a major political party in Norway, Berit Ås, has died at the age of 96.
“It is with sadness that we can announce that SV’s first leader and the country’s first female party leader, Berit Ås, has passed away. Ås died on Saturday evening in her own home with her family around her, after a short period of hospitalisation,” the Socialist Left Party wrote in a statement.
The current leader of SV, Kirsti Bergstø, paid tribute to Ås.
“Berit has shaped both the Norwegian left and the public. She always carried with her a deep sense of justice and was active until the end. We are grateful for that,” she said.
Bank customers in Norway are more unsatisfied than ever
While banks’ earnings have gone through the roof, business broadsheet Dagens Næringsliv reports that customers in Norway are the most unsatisfied they have ever been with the country’s financial institutions.
Customer satisfaction has fallen to 66.8 out of 100, the lowest level measured since Epsi Norway began measuring satisfaction in 2004.
“Safe and stable banks are important in troubled and uncertain times, but the impression that the banks are having an interest rate party while many customers are struggling to make ends meet can be perceived as unsympathetic,” the report on customer satisfaction by Epsi Norway read.
Centre Party wants to draw people away from Oslo
The Centre Party (SP) said it wants to make it easier for people to buy homes in rural areas outside of Oslo.
“You do not benefit from the same type of increase in value in these municipalities as in central areas. In some places, it is simply a big risk if you want to build,” Anne Beathe Tvinnereim, Centre Party deputy leader, told NTB.
New measures proposed by the party for between 2025 and 2029 (after the next general election) will make it easier and cheaper to get mortgages in rural areas.
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