Health Retirement and nursing homes to become more crisis-proof according to the Federal Council

With a view to future pandemics and crises, the Federal Council wants to focus more on older people in care and nursing homes as well as young people. These groups of people have had to endure particularly great suffering during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Federal Council writes this in two reports published on Wednesday. It received the mandate to do so from Parliament with five postulates that were referred. These called for the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the elderly population and on the mental health of children and adolescents to be investigated.

The national government wants to better manage future pandemics and crises, as it writes. Lessons need to be learned, particularly for retirement and nursing homes and for strengthening mental health.

"Retirement and nursing homes as well as residential homes for people with disabilities must be better prepared for future pandemics", one of the reports states. It is also important that individual mental health is fundamentally strengthened.