The targeted investment in elderly care can according to The Moderate Party be enough for 4,000 more employees around Sweden.
It would mean more colleagues in home care and in nursing homes, but also better working conditions for those who work, says The Moderate Party's economic policy spokesperson Mikael Damberg.
An additional two billion kronor is added for cheaper medicines, where The Moderate Party goes against the government's increase of the high-cost protection for medicines.
The Moderate Party also wants to make the elderly care initiative permanent and develop it, which is about the staff being given the opportunity to educate themselves during working hours. Questions about language requirements and language training need to be in place, says Damberg.
Today, the language skills in many cases are not good enough.
The Moderate Party believes that the government has put the welfare on a ”starvation diet”. They themselves want to introduce a kind of bottom plate for the financing of welfare in the long term, where government grants to municipalities and regions are counted up with inflation.
Also present at the press conference is the chairman of The Municipal Workers' Union, Malin Ragnegård.
Elderly care has been allowed to deteriorate. It's time to turn the development and it must start now, she says.
