{"id":14538,"date":"2021-01-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/fjolgun-urraeda-fyrir-folk-med-heilabilun\/"},"modified":"2022-09-26T15:16:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T15:16:26","slug":"increasing-the-number-of-activities-for-people-with-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/fjolgun-urraeda-fyrir-folk-med-heilabilun\/","title":{"rendered":"Increasing resources for people with dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Municipality of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur and S\u00f3lt\u00fan Elderly Care Services Ltd. signed<br \/>\nToday a contract was signed for the operation of a specialised day care service at S\u00f3lvangur. The contract takes<br \/>\nfor the operation of twelve specialised day care places at S\u00f3lvangur and has the aim<br \/>\nto ensure older people with dementia receive specific services and support<br \/>\nto their carers by operating a specialised day care service. <\/p>\n<h4><strong>The Alzheimer's Society<br \/>\nProfessional backer<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur offers a fully-furnished and recently renovated property on the first floor at S\u00f3lvangur.,<br \/>\n2 S\u00f3lvangsvegur, Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. S\u00f3lt\u00fan<br \/>\nAgeing services will manage the operation of the spaces, with an emphasis on collaboration with<br \/>\nThe Alzheimer's Association as a professional backer but   <a href=\"\/en\/province\/news\/nytt-setur-og-thjonustumidstod-i-lifsgaedasetri-st.-jo.\/\" class=\"internal\">During the year, the Alzheimer's Association will move to the St. J\u00f3 Wellbeing Centre at 46 Su\u00f0urgata in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur and open a new service centre there.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/rosa_halla-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Rose Hall\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 2048px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 2048\/1366;\"><sup>Mayor R\u00f3sa Gu\u00f0bjartsd\u00f3ttir and Halla Thoroddsen, Managing Director of S\u00f3lt\u00fan, sign an agreement for the operation of a specialised day care service at S\u00f3lvangur.&nbsp;<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201eOur plans for<br \/>\ndevelopment of a comprehensive service centre for older people in the S\u00f3lvang area<br \/>\ncontinues. The development has progressed well in recent months and years and now additions are being made.<br \/>\nto these twelve specialised spaces. An important addition which is intended to<br \/>\nto further integrate professional, comprehensive services for senior citizens in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. The next<br \/>\nThe steps are aimed at the renovation and construction of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors in the old S\u00f3lvangur building.<br \/>\nin collaboration with the Ministry of Health. This is an exciting development project.<br \/>\nwhich is being implemented\u201c<\/em> says R\u00f3sa Gu\u00f0bjartsd\u00f3ttir, the mayor<br \/>\nHafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. <\/p>\n<p>S\u00f3lt\u00fan Elderly Care Services is today the operator of a nursing home.<br \/>\nin a new building at S\u00f3lvang and a day care for the elderly on the ground floor of the old building<br \/>\nSolvangi.  <a href=\"\/en\/province\/news\/nytt-hjukrunarheimili-a-solvangi-opnad-i-dag\/\" class=\"internal\">A magnificent new 60-bed care home was officially opened on 17 July 2019.<\/a>  and thereby replaced the old S\u00f3lvang. At the same time, a decision was made<br \/>\nto increase the number of nursing home places at S\u00f3lvang, in addition to the 60 places that are in<br \/>\nthe new building and to begin work on the old one and carry out significant refurbishments<br \/>\nSolvangi.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"\/en\/province\/meeting-minutes\/displaymeeting.aspx\/?id=92SuLIGQokSFKLHJ4ySHuA1&amp;text=\" class=\"internal\">The agreement was approved by the town council on 9 December.<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup><em>In the picture are, from left: Rannveig Einarsd\u00f3ttir, Director of the Family and Child Welfare Department; \u00c1g\u00fast Bjarni Gar\u00f0arsson, Chairman of the Municipal Council, R\u00f3sa Gu\u00f0bjartsd\u00f3ttir, Mayor; Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur Kristinsd\u00f3ttir, Director of the Administration Department; Ingibj\u00f6rg Ey\u00fe\u00f3rsd\u00f3ttir, Director of Nursing at S\u00f3lt\u00fan Elderly Care Services Ltd; and Halla Thoroddsen, Managing Director.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/sup><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hafnarfjar\u00f0arb\u00e6r og S\u00f3lt\u00fan \u00f6ldrunar\u00fej\u00f3nusta ehf. undirritu\u00f0u \u00ed dag samning um rekstur s\u00e9rh\u00e6f\u00f0rar dagdvalar \u00e1 S\u00f3lvangi. Samningurinn tekur til reksturs t\u00f3lf s\u00e9rh\u00e6f\u00f0ra dagdvalarr\u00fdma \u00e1 S\u00f3lvangi og hefur \u00fea\u00f0 a\u00f0 markmi\u00f0i a\u00f0 tryggja \u00f6ldru\u00f0um einstaklingum me\u00f0 heilabilun tiltekna \u00fej\u00f3nustu og sty\u00f0ja vi\u00f0 a\u00f0standendur \u00feeirra me\u00f0 rekstri s\u00e9rh\u00e6f\u00f0rar dagdvalar. Alzheimersamt\u00f6kin faglegur bakhjarl Hafnarfjar\u00f0arb\u00e6r leggur til fullb\u00fai\u00f0 og n\u00fdlega [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14538"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}