According to the newspaper Gara, the Pensioners' Movement has denounced the improvisation, helplessness and scarce resources at its disposal. The letter points out that, in view of the evidence, home and residential care policies should take a 180 degree turn.
The Movement has stated that the elderly, isolated by the health crisis, are dying alone, without saying goodbye to their loved ones, and has called for the media to be enabled to give the last goodbye. The parliamentarians, the municipalities, Osakidetza and the offices responsible for Osasunbidea have demanded that the accompanying measures that exist for the end of life be unified and made public.
The Movement has denounced that working women, mostly women, work without minimum safety measures and has asked the authorities for detailed information on the number of older persons and workers in homes and home services, persons affected by the virus, detection tests detected, the degree of severity detected, cases of infection overcome, cases of symptoms only and deaths.
The pandemic has revealed, in all its crudeness, the consequences of the neoliberal model of care for the elderly, children and the dependent population. Now is the time to consolidate the critical discourses and community alternatives that flourished during the lockdown.”... [+]