Navarre approves a standard to eliminate the use of pylons in older residences.

-The Decree regulates the use of physical and pharmacological pylons in the institutionalized elderly

-La Confederation believes that you open the door to this kind of practice reaching eradicated

Madrid, 2011-October the Government of Navarra has adopted a regulation that opens the door to lift the routine use of fasteners in the homes of older people. For the Spanish Confederation of older organizations (CEOMA) is a standards more avant-garde in the world, with the emphasis on the rights of persons who receive care in nursing homes and day centres, and establishing the bases to make a control of the use of such measures by the Administration ”.

The Decree approved by the Navarrese Executive, which develops the Foral law of social services, regulates the use of physical and pharmacological pylons in the institutionalized elderly. In the process of elaboration of this standard, the autonomous Government received advice from the program untie the elderly and Alzheimer’s patient ” of CEOMA.
In fact, the base document from which the aforementioned Decree was conceived was prepared by service quality and inspection of the Ministry of Social policy, equal, sport and youth, and the director of the program untie the elderly and Alzheimer’s patient ” of CEOMA, Antonio Burgess, who advised the technicians of the Department in its development and to analyse, collect and add the contributions that were made at the time.

According to Burgess, the rule opens the door to will remove the routine use of pylons and, therefore, coming to eradicate almost entirely, where society is informed of the negative effects of the physical pylons used on a daily basis and what it means the use for convenience, and not the greatest benefit of the older person, that he should not be restricted. With this law opens the door to reject that centres the pylons are used to manage the person with less effort ”.

In this sense, CEOMA considers that the legal text puts the emphasis on the rights of persons who receive care in nursing homes and day centres, establishing the bases to make a control by the administration of the use of the pylons. In addition to the physical pylons, the Decree regulates the use of railings which can be used with restrictive purposes, as well as the general use of psychotropic drugs, according to Burgess, which is especially problematic in the elderly.

Also incorporates the idea that a subject is a procedure that involves risks or disadvantages of clear and predictable negative impact on the health of the person, and the consequent obligation fulfilled in these cases the Basic Law on the autonomy of the patient and of rights and obligations in the field of information and clinical documentation ”, indicates the programme manager untie the elderly and Alzheimer’s patient ” of CEOMA.

The text provides a series of guarantees, as care center team is forced to evaluate comprehensively the need or not of the implementation of a subject and possible alternatives, prior to the prescription.

With the rules has taken into account the study of prevalence that took place in Navarra the program trigger to the elderly and Alzheimer’s patient. Fruit of the results of this analysis, were included in the social services Plan I of quality of Navarre measures to promote the rational use of natural and pharmacological, pylons including the adoption of the foral Decree.

For the purpose of carrying out these measures was signed an agreement of collaboration between CEOMA and the Department of Social Affairs by which, inter alia, CEOMA is forced through the director of the untying programme, to the advice of pylons, given his extensive knowledge about laws in the most advanced in other countries in this field and the evidence on the use of pylonsas well as the existence of centres free of pylons in Spain and in the world.

CEOMA view, the requirements imposed by this rule when implementing a subject must avoid this routine use and establish guarantees for the person object, that nowadays Navarra in a way very similar to the rest of Spain presents an average high of such practices use compared with other countries in our socio-cultural environment.

Untie the elderly and the sick man of alzheimer.

programme untie the elderly and Alzheimer’s patient ” is one demonstration of the commitment CEOMA maintains with the people who suffer from Alzheimer and with their families, was awarded the International Prize Prince of Viana customer dependency ” 2010, and its purpose is to support all schools who request and who want to work to rationalize the use of pylons or get credited as centre free of PYLONS ”.

CEOMA

The Spanish Confederation of older organizations (CEOMA) is an organization created non-profit for the defence of the rights of older persons. It represents more than one million members of Base and almost 1,500 associations and covers 40 organizations of elders of the various autonomous communities.