Functionality in Health Care

Too busy to write a long blog but here is a short one.

I had a 100% Danish speaking Lutheran worship service this
afternoon at the nursing home I have visited. Out of 5 hymns,
I recognized one song. The hymns were all written before 1870.
The nursing home was brand new and it was the most beautiful
and functional one I've ever seen. I am going to ride a bicycle
tomorrow to visit elderly people in their homes.

The schedules are tight but I will survive.

Danish health policy, uh quick one... they prohibit keeping
a person bed-ridden. Even turning nursing home patients
on their bed is not enough. Even if patients are sick, they are
supposed to get out of the bed minimum 2 hours a day.
So several times a day, they move about a lot. From their own
rooms to dining room, for a meal, coffee/tea and cake, to religious
service, to song and dance, etc. If the patient is really paralyzed,
then they use this wheel chair that falls backward to become
a reclining arm chair. Leg and body angles can be adjusted.
Innovations and functional improvement in ergonomics are used
to help individualize the policy according to a person's handicap
or need.

Very impressive.