Swedish nursing home introduces coffee rationing
TT/The Local - [email protected]
Published: 27 Feb, 2010 CET.
Updated: Sat 27 Feb 2010 10:23 CET
In an attempt to reduce expenditures, a nursing home in the municipality of Timrå in northern Sweden has started to ration the coffee served to its residents.
Patients will in the future be limited to a maximum of two cups of coffee and three decilitres of milk per person per day, reports Sundsvalls Tidning newspaper.
The rationing system is part of a new cost savings program that has long been in the works. Staff are to place bulk orders for a week's worth of food, including bread and butter for breakfast and snacks. The entire menu that the elderly residents can order from is under review.
Nursing home staff have been critical of the measure and have reported that they are ashamed when they can't fulfill a resident's request for more of the rationed products.
Comments
See Also
Patients will in the future be limited to a maximum of two cups of coffee and three decilitres of milk per person per day, reports Sundsvalls Tidning newspaper.
The rationing system is part of a new cost savings program that has long been in the works. Staff are to place bulk orders for a week's worth of food, including bread and butter for breakfast and snacks. The entire menu that the elderly residents can order from is under review.
Nursing home staff have been critical of the measure and have reported that they are ashamed when they can't fulfill a resident's request for more of the rationed products.
Join the conversation in our comments section below. Share your own views and experience and if you have a question or suggestion for our journalists then email us at [email protected].
Please keep comments civil, constructive and on topic – and make sure to read our terms of use before getting involved.
Please log in here to leave a comment.