Centre for Elderly Care Services

Preparations are underway for the construction of a new sixty-room
nursing home on the Sólvangur estate and the ideas of the municipal authorities in
Hafnarfjörður intends to connect the building to Sólvang and partially utilise Sólvang.
as a service centre for senior citizens in the municipality. In addition, it is planned
for the addition of twenty nursing places
The Ministry of Welfare is awaiting the local authorities' proposals on the matter.

In May 2010
An agreement was signed between the Ministry of Welfare and the City of Hafnarfjörður regarding
construction and participation in the lease of a nursing home for the elderly in the municipality.
The agreement provides for a sixty-bed care home to replace the current one.
nursing home at Sólvang. The construction of the nursing home has been delayed but originally
It was scheduled to be ready in autumn 2012. Following a feasibility study on
The new project management took over the location of the home.
to employment in 2015. It was approved in the same year that a new care home would be built on the Sólvang site.
The decision is in accordance with the policy on matters concerning older people in Hafnarfjörður.
to the effect that Sólvangur will be the centre for elderly care services in the municipality. There
Various support services are already in place, which it is important to have in
The surrounding environment of a new nursing home.

More space and changed use – the advantages are
undisputed

Ideas
there have been proposals to use Sólvangshúsið as a service centre and that it will include, among other things,.
day care for older people, physiotherapy, a canteen, social activities and
more. Consideration has also been given to increasing the number of proposed spaces from
sixty to eighty and utilise Sólvangshúsið, for example, for the twenty spaces that would be available
In addition, today there are fifty-eight.
space at Sólvang and a new nursing home would only add two new
spaces according to current plans. It is clear that there is a great need for more
nursing places in the capital region and would this increase meet the demand for them
needs. It has also been shown that operating eighty rooms
A nursing home is much more cost-effective than running sixty beds. The advantages are
because unequivocal.

Call on the ministry to change its position

A letter from the Ministry of Welfare at the end of November 2015 states that the ministry does not agree.
That renovations will be carried out on the Sólvangshús in accordance with the proposals.
the municipal authorities in Hafnarfjörður. The municipal authorities in Hafnarfjörður have called on the ministry
to reconsider this position and approve both an amendment to
the current premises on Sólvangsreit and an increase in nursing places from sixty to eighty.
A written challenge, which was unanimously approved and signed by all members of the committee.
The project management of the nursing home has been sent to the Minister of Health.