the streets of Stockholm during the past week have been covered by a layer of frozen slush and made it difficult for gångtrafikanterna. In the last week came more than 1,200 complaints about the slipping in of two days. As a consequence of this, parts are now boroughs and localities Liljeholmen-Häsgersten out free spikes for the elderly.
it is people who have home help or transportation service for the disabled as a priority. But all that is over 65 years old can get past the care of the elderly at Telefonplan and pick up a couple.
– We share out the spikes until the end, ” says Kerstin Malmport, head of unit at the äldreomsorgens beställningsenhet in Liljeholmen-Stockholm.
the city of Stockholm for sek 2 million in the budget to spikes for the city’s elderly. Then the interest in Liljeholmen-Hägerstens ceremony is not especially large.
– We have a variety of boxes with the studs left over from the year that just stands here, so when we heard about the notifications on the slip, we thought that we could share them out, ” says Kerstin Malmport.
Elderly care in the boroughs and localities have also provided staff go on home visits to the elderly with the spikes so that they do not slip on the way there.
– All we need to protect us from slipping, but what we are focusing on is to finish the bet that was made several years ago, ” says Kerstin Malmport.
There are also a limited number of spikes to the left on the Right and in the Enskede-Årsta. But it is not yet clear whether and, if so, how they should be shared out.
Even in Huddinge municipality is a bet on the spikes to the elderly. About 4,000 pensioners have checked out the spikes in any of the twenty utlämingsställen in the municipality.
