Three years ago, drove 91-year-old Elisabeth Scholz car crisscrossing in Skåne to greet friends and relatives.
After two strokes, she has lost mobility and a large part of the speech. And since Elisabeth Scholz was born in Germany, it is now most German words and sounds that emerge. It means that no one at the retirement home quite understand her properly, according to the family.
The 62-year-old daughter Astrid gets teary-eyed when she says, patting his mother on the cheek.
– She often sits alone, and it makes me so sad, she says.
The concern for the mother’s loneliness and that she was not taken care of enough stress Astrid. For two years she worked because 75 percent in order to visit her mother every day. She has made sure that the hearing aid is in place, trimmed nails, brushed teeth, helped with toileting, bought compression stockings, gone walking. For the 25 percent she has been on leave from her job Astrid has received allowance.
The last fifteen years, the number who receive allowance increased greatly. Last year more than 15 000 people benefit. This represents a doubling since 1999, in Skåne, the increase is even greater. Seven out of ten women are being replaced.
allowance provides some financial support to those who want to work less to support relatives. However, the replacement can only be given when someone is seriously ill and is in the final stages of life. There is also a limit of one hundred days. This means that the compensation can not make up the efforts of the 140 000 who passed down their working hours or quit work to care for relatives. Most are women.
– Associate Money is good but it does not replace the care effort. For those who do not have a relative in the end of life is not a right to be free from their work if it is not urgent, says Marta Szebehely, professor of social work at the University of Stockholm.
Instead, many women who call in sick, take vacation or time off without pay. National Audit Office considers for a new investigation that the government should consider the adaptation of both the social security system and labor laws. That could be about to give the right to leave, for example.
– Today there is no real opportunities to combine comprehensive family care with a job and that, for example, parent of young children, says Philippe Jolly, Audit Director at the National Audit Office.
The Center Party wants to make it easier for families with compensation for the care of relatives, van. A system similar to that for the care of children.
– Associate allowance is not fully used and therefore we want to lower the bar for who can get it, says Anders W Jonsson (C), chairman of the Parliamentary Social Affairs Committee.
But there can be drawbacks with the right to extended leave to care about the compensation is too low, according to researcher Marta Szebehely.
– There will be attractive to those with the least attachment to the labor market, and becomes something that women use. It can also lead to discrimination if employers believe that women will take time off to care for a parent, even if everyone is not going to do it.
Astrid can no longer get allowance, day’s end. But because the mother has language problems, the family appealed to the administrative court.
– I do not think the mother had been now if not I been here so much. But are you unpaid leave of absence, it takes a lot to the economy and the pension, therefore I can no longer come every day.
Astrid does not want his last name in the newspaper.
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