tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769530433121039302023-11-16T08:01:59.623-08:00VIKTOR DONOVANBlog by LEIF SODERGREN Gothenburg - Sweden - lemongulch@yahoo.comViktorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00361206209116491534noreply@blogger.comBlogger212125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476953043312103930.post-37586592219471765042019-08-17T06:19:00.001-07:002019-08-17T06:25:04.192-07:00Primitive paintings in Gällinge church - Follow me on INSTAGRAM<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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See more in the following paintings from the Gällinge Church and painted on wood dating back to 1767 when a new wooden ceiling was installed. The oldest parts of the church date back to 1100. The painters are believed to be by the German Jonas Durchs and Swedish Johan Adolf Spaak. #naivepaintingstyle #swedishchurch #gällingekyrka #gällinge #woodenchurches #folkpainting #folkart #johnaandthewhale #biblicalpaintings #jonasdurchs #johanadolfspaak</a></p> <p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A post shared by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/leifsodergren/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px;" target="_blank"> Leif Södergren</a> (@leifsodergren) on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2019-08-17T08:47:41+00:00">Aug 17, 2019 at 1:47am PDT</time></p></div></blockquote> <script async src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>Viktorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00361206209116491534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476953043312103930.post-77588092432451095612019-05-30T11:19:00.000-07:002019-05-30T22:58:47.392-07:00THE WAR ON WOMEN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="" style="color: #222222; text-align: justify;">This text is taken from Donovan O'Malley's <a class="" href="http://womenwholoveandotherstories.blogspot.se/" style="color: #007cbb; text-decoration: none;">WOMEN WHO LOVE & OTHER STORIES</a> -- T<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">he last story, JOAN AND JEAN ON PAGO PAGO deals with a fictitious meeting of the classic film actors, Joan Crawford and Jean Harlow. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">In it, Crawford describes to Harlow what abortion was like -- when it was</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">illegal</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">in the USA -- and the ensuing horror and possible aftermath of a back-alley abortion.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: Palatino-Roman; text-align: justify;">I lay there with my dress up to my chin. He looked down at me, grinned for a moment. I was glad it wasn't longer. He went to wash that child's blood from his hands and I thanked God for little favors -- he was at least washing his hands before he touched me. I looked around and I couldn't see the forest for the forceps...and the prongs and the knives and the little pincers and the big pincers and the scissors and the tiny, tiny, so very tiny hooked something-or-others that lay about that butcher's shop. </span><span class="" style="font-family: Palatino-Roman; text-align: justify;">This illegal back-alley abortionist, this spurious doctor, this butcher, gives you a slug of gin from a dirty glass, pours a little more, drinks it himself then soaks his bloody hanky in it, and rubs it on his long, hooked wire. This man, this cruel but necessary criminal, was our only resort when a woman was poor and abortion was against the law.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: Palatino-Roman;">Then one fine morning a few months later I wake up in this cheap hotel on a real bloody bed, see? With this little thing beside me. I ain't quite awake so I don't know what the hell it is. But it moves and it looks at me with big, cloudy eyes and do you know what I say? </span><span class="" style="font-family: Palatino-Roman;">I say </span><i class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Palatino-Italic;">What the hell is this?!</span></i><span class="" style="font-family: Palatino-Roman;"> It is attached to an umbilical cord thingy that trails right up into my...</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Much of human activity is centered around food. We think of food whether we’re hungry or not. We spend a great deal of time buying it. We take hours preparing it (well, some do). We talk about it. We read about it in cook books. We watch television when chefs talk about it (sometimes to excess). When we socialize, it is often centered around the communal intake of it. We give it as gifts. Food, we can’t escape it! Some people become keenly interested in preparing food for themselves and others; many have become what we call “good cooks”. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Usually a degree of creativity is involved together with a keen interest to entertain and a need to take care of others, to be a good host. It is such people that one remembers, and that is how I got started on Food & Folk, remembering, for example that excellent couple, Beatrice and Clayburn La Force on their ranch in Alpine California. After that I just kept going.</span></span></div>
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Viktorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00361206209116491534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476953043312103930.post-36463208018689309952016-04-13T05:54:00.000-07:002016-04-13T05:54:42.636-07:00SCILLA: SPRING OPPORTUNIST<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Viktorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00361206209116491534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476953043312103930.post-34842701822624332972016-04-11T23:18:00.000-07:002016-04-13T07:47:37.923-07:00EINSTEIN'S GOT YOUR BACK!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Viktorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00361206209116491534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476953043312103930.post-55556472530846123822016-03-28T04:20:00.000-07:002016-04-10T10:39:31.897-07:00THE OCCUPY HERITAGE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The anti-establishment sentiments during the American election 2016, date back to OCCUPY WALLS STREET protests five years earlier. The concept of the rich 1% and the dispossessed other 99%, is in common usage today and Bernie Sanders keeps the spirit alive in his election campaigning. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The 99 %. </b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Who were the occupiers?</span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/29/august-bradley-99-faces-of-occupy-wall-street_n_1121611.html?ref=occupy-wall-street#undefined" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Huffington Post asked and showed these faces, photographed by August Bradley.</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Energy bikes </b>were used to charge lap top computers. They created a lot of interest and were symbolic in many aspects. <a href="http://keegan.nyc/energy-bikes-the-story/">Here is more info.</a></span></span><br />
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Viktorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00361206209116491534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476953043312103930.post-91754893408028049452016-03-15T23:46:00.000-07:002016-03-15T23:54:05.094-07:00WHAT DO YOU SEE WHEN YOU LOOK AT ME?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So many good things come from America: watch this film posted<a href="http://www.littlethings.com/start-seeing-seniors/"> here </a>with this text:</span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">"This eye-opening video serves to remind us that people in their Golden Years are sometimes forgotten, but they’re still </span><a href="http://www.littlethings.com/junk-mail-old-woman/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: blue; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">very much alive</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. At first, the participants answer a very simple yet poignant question: “What do you see when you look at me?” The words are devastating: senile, frail, dependent. But by the end of the video, the mood completely changes and these participants show us who they truly are — the amazing things no one else bothers to see."</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.universeum.se/index.php?lang=en">Universeum Science Museum</a> in Gothenburg, Sweden is built of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glued_laminated_timber">glued laminated wood beams </a>(stronger than steel ). It is well worth a visit. Don't miss the tropical rain forest and the shark tank. And there is a lot more!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I refer to your <a href="http://www.helpage.org/global-agewatch/">GLOBAL AGE INDEX 2015</a> which is based on a variety of factors you have collected from various countries in order determine the quality of life in older age. On your website, you encourage <b>input from individuals</b>. I wish to do so from a purely personal</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">perspective. Maybe the statistics you gather do not show the kind of reality I have to reveal.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><b>The elderly a costly burden</b> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am 68 years old and not yet “old” per say but will soon be, and I have fresh experience how it is to be old in Sweden from having taken care of my elderly and sick mother and I am deeply concerned about the the attitude in Sweden to the elderly. </span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It appears that the elderly all too often are regarded as a costly burden on society. The elderly are defenceless when politicians zero in on them as a group where money can be saved - often with disastrous consequences. To be blunt, the elderly in my mind are far too often treated as third class citizens in Sweden. The pronounced <a href="http://viktordonovan.blogspot.se/2015/10/ageism-in-sweden-worrying-report-from.html">ageism</a> in Sweden is not helpful either.</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Reduced housing for the elderly </b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In Sweden there were once a great many homes for the elderly (assisted living) but they have been closed and used for other purposes, a process that has not yet ended. Instead old people are told that they should live at home and be taken care of by home service and healthcare in the home. Unfortunately home service and home health service are often targeted for budget cuts and many elderly do not wish to live at home especially as their health fails and they are getting increasingly unsure, frail and lonely.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But in Sweden people are not allowed the choice of moving to a home for the elderly. They are vetted by special personnel, “assessing” the need of the elderly (biståndsbedömare) as though people themselves do not know what they need and want. Only in very extreme cases, like being severely handicapped after a stroke or suffering from advanced dementia, can one go to a home for the elderly. Many elderly that are frail, insecure and would feel secure in a home for the elderly, are not necessarily allowed to go to one. The reason is that it is cheaper to have the elderly live at home. Cost is all. The individual choice does not exist anymore.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Jumped off a balcony in protest</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 2013, a woman aged 84 who lived in Stenungsund on the West coast of Sweden had asked for her and her husband to go to a home for the elderly. She was exhausted having cared for her sick husband besides managing her bad health and frailty. To her grandchildren she had earlier said, that the older you get, the less help you get. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">During a meeting with the local government "care assessors" (biståndsbedömare) she must have decided that this was enough. She left the room where the meeting was taking place, walked out on the balcony and jumped off and killed herself. Politicians often say that Sweden is a good country to grow old in. This woman obviously did not agree.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We have many national laws and guidelines from the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) that speak of respect for the elderly and of quality care and free choice etc, a lot of admirable thoughts and words that one would expect in a civilised society. Those are national laws, but unfortunately, the local government (kommunen) and the county government (landstinget) who actually deal with home care and health care for the elderly, do not always follow these laws. Their law appears to be their budget and budget cuts are routinely issued regardless of the actual situation and the national laws. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Reprimands from the Health and Social Care inspectorate (IVO) are largely ignored as the Inspectorate does not and apparently cannot levy any fines or sanctions. The elderly are in other words, not protected by the law when local and county governments let the elderly take the brunt of their reduced budgets. It is a state of lawlessness for the elderly.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Home Care in Sweden is like a lottery. It depends on where you live. It is run by the local government (kommunen) and it can be very good if you live in a city like Sundsvall in Northern Sweden or any other place where it is properly run, but so often it is not.</span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In Gothenburg, the second city in Sweden, the home care has been repeatedly criticised by The National Board of Health and Welfare and other agencies. Instead of having small teams (like Sundsvall) who get to know their elderly and the elderly get to know the team, the city has in effect developed a culture of anonymity. </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The people working with the elderly do not know from one day to the other where they will be working the next day. The older person might ask: <i>“Will you come tomorrow?”</i> The answer: <i>“Sorry, I will not know until next morning”.</i> The way this is achieved is by using computer software that chops up the schedule and gives assignments in the morning , all to save money. The human factor has been thrown out the window.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Turning your home into a Grand Central Station</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The one thing that the elderly appreciate is a sense of continuity which gives them a sense of security. This is often ignored by the local government in Gothenburg where it is common for the elderly to meet up to 30-40 different people each month, many total strangers, sometimes more. People who work this way often feel unsatisfied and call in sick which brings in more unknown people (substitutes) to visit the elderly. </span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Many of the elderly have complex illnesses and conditions that need care takers who know the particulars. Some cannot speak. Nurses have delegated the giving of medicine to home care workers, and it is disastrous that elderly patients have a stream of different home care workers (up to 40 a month). How can they possibly manage this intricate work? Just because a person is old and is receiving help from society, does not give politicians the right to turn the private homes of the dependent elderly into some sort of Grand Central Station where up to 40 people, some of them strangers, come and go.</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My ninety-two-year-old mother died at home from undiagnosed, untreated double pneumonia (the diagnosis came through autopsy). The doctor’s office was a ten minute car ride away, but the doctor refused to come. The family sent a steady stream of emails to the clinic, and a home nurse pleaded with the doctor to come. We heard the nurse plead to him on the telephone: <i>“If you do not come for the sake of the patient, or for the sake of the relatives, please come for my sake”.</i> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Abandoned by her doctor</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The doctor ordained a blood test to be taken by the nurse and morphine, but he refused to visit his deathly ill patient. It was scandalous and tragic and hard on my mother and also hard on us family members to see her so utterly ignored. </span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I think that this kind of behaviour by a doctor would be unthinkable in other countries. But it can happen here in Sweden where people cannot sue their doctor and the Inspectorate (IVO) does not and apparently cannot levy any fines or sanctions. The local and county government politicians have very little to fear. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In this case the National Inspectorate, West (IVO) whose judgements cannot be appealed, very strangely, freed the doctor completely, having found that he had done nothing wrong under the circumstances. Since this verdict cannot be appealed (unusual with no appeal process in civilised society) they in effect cleared the way for Swedish doctors to abandon their patients at will.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>The Money War against the elderly</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The reason for this tragic event when my mother was abandoned by her doctor, was most likely due to the county government (Vastra Götalands Regionen) wanting to save money for the health care of the elderly. My mother had previously had a wonderful doctor who came home to her, spent enough time and was very caring. It was too good to believe. The politicians intervened and the wonderful doctor disappeared. Instead, the local clinic where doctors normally received booked patients all day long, were now somehow (by magic?) also to visit the elderly, an impossible task. But it saved money for the local government. And left my mother to die without a doctor. This was one of the many ill-advised organisational flops of the county health organisation (Västra Götalandsregionen). There are more.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Medically unsafe</span></b><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Most people in Sweden live with the idea that their doctor (county government) and the hospitals (local government) can read each others medical journals. But this is not the case and it can put the patient at risk when leaving the hospital. My mother had been treated a couple of months in a hospital for the after-effects of shingles in the forehead and eye, one of the most painful conditions imaginable. She was too frail to go home so she went to a short term rehab hospital (korttidsboende). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>How caring was that?</b></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It looked like a hospital, with hospital beds, nurses and other care givers. But lo and behold when my mother who could hardly speak and was heavily sedated was told (through us relatives) that the “hospital” had no medicine there. We had to go to the drugstore and get her medicine and give it to them to dispense. As to a doctor, we were supposed to contact her clinic where “the doctor of her choice” was. Was there really no doctor for all these patients? No. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The doctor that previously had been stationed in this “hospital” (korttidsboende), helping the patients in this building had been phased out by the county government (to save money of course). </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now all the patients in the various beds had to “contact their doctor” in clinics all over the city. If they themselves could not do that, the nurses, already hard up, had to spend hours on the phone calling clinics and trying to get recalcitrant doctors to come and see their patients. The nurses told me that they rarely could get a doctor to come. They found this process time-consuming and stressful.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>A Kafka world - but it saves money</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This Kafka world was quite a shock to us. There were not sufficient prescriptions issued by the hospital doctor so that had to be arranged by us by calling the hospital she came from. My brother in law spent several hours to drive to various drugstores to find the many drugs my mother needed. </span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I took it upon myself to call the clinic and ask for mother’s doctor to help her with some stronger pain medicine since mother was not coping well with her intense pain. The doctor who had not seen mother for month was totally surprised. He had no idea what had happened to her during her hospital visit.</span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The hospital had forgotten to carry out the manual procedure to fax (sending via computer and email violates the patient’s privacy according to the way they see it) her journal to the doctor. I had to chase the hospital to send her medical journal which further delayed everything. But what about a visit? No, the doctor did not intend to come. He never came to see mother during the two months she was there. The county certainly was saving money — but at what cost! All this kept us relatives very busy and upset to say the least. The county might be saving money but they made our lives a living hell.</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Costly mismanagement</b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is always a cost to inhumane cuts in home care and home health care. When things are not done right, when home care nurses and doctors do not do what they are supposed to do, when the home care people do not give the right medicine or forget to give it, or do not know how to give it, the neglected elderly patients can get sicker, die or end up (unnecessarily) in the emergency ward. </span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was twice there with my 90 year old mother and the wait was around nine hours, nothing unusual. It can be much more sometimes. No consideration is taken to old age. I spoke to a nurse who works in a geriatric ward that receives older people who have come to the hospital via the emergency ward. She said it was sad to see them arrive, dried out, hungry and often dirty in their own feces.</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I think that Swedish politicians have a serious problem.They are able to show empathy for a variety of weak groups in and outside of Sweden, but they have a problem with their own elderly about whom they seem to be emotionally dysfunctional, displaying a worrying and chilling lack of empathy. They have to stop seeing the elderly only as a costly burden. They must avoid the temptation to use heavy handed tactics to save money. The elderly are human beings too who deserve love and respect and the freedom to chose how they wish to live. And it must be remembered that these elderly are the same people who, all their lives have paid heavy taxes for the reasonable services they are now denied. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">Leif Södergren, Gothenburg</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Jumping off the balcony</b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I wrote the above letter having been deeply affected by the tragic fate of an 84 year old woman in Stenungsund, Sweden who in desperation jumped off a balcony. She had once more been denied help by the local government. She had been sitting in the livingroom together with two of the local government "care assessors" who no doubt once more convinced here that she did not qualify for any help from society. She and her husband had three years earlier applied to go to "assisted living" (äldreboende). For some reason they had withdrawn their application. Now, once more she was asking for them to go to such a place. Anyone in Sweden knows that homes for the elderly (äldreboende) are rapidly closed as the need of the baby boomers for such places grows. Society should building more places rather than closing them down. The math doesn't work here.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>A last request </b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The old woman had many times previously asked for other kinds of assistance that had been denied. This was unfortunately not properly documented by the local government but the relatives told media that she had been denied help several times and that she had told her grandchildren that <i>"the older you get - the less help you get from society". </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Women's plights</b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Women unfairly often end up caring for their ill and ageing husbands even if they themselves need help. This is an enormous burden for a woman that is not always understood by young and fit "care assessors". </span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can imagine the desperation in this old woman, worn down by minding for herself and her husband. She just wanted to be taken care of in her old age she had said. </span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After all, she lived in a country with one of the world's highest taxes. </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She probably sensed during the meeting that another refusal was coming. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">The taxes she and her husband had been paid for all those years was to be spent on other more worthy people it seemed. Without uttering a word, she quietly walked out on the balcony and jumped. Her life could not be saved.</span><br />
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Viktorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00361206209116491534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476953043312103930.post-65123360822711605462016-01-29T10:05:00.001-08:002016-02-03T09:21:43.950-08:00TRAVEL FROM THE SOFA <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have found a splendid travel guide in Milosh Kitchovitch from New York who travels the world to many fascinating places where he makes films in the fantastically clear and detailed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4K_resolution">4K</a> format. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He then very generously shares his extremely well made films on </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/milosh9k" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">YOUTUBE</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. How many people can show this kind of result after a vacation?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When you watch his 4K format films on a large new television screen or on a large, say 27 inch computer screen, the result is marvellous. This dreary winter I have enjoyed many of his films from my sofa and in front of the computer. There is always something new to discover on the internet. Love it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here are <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/milosh9k/playlists">all his playlists</a> (some not in 4k). if you click on the image, all the films will play one after the other. if you click on the blue name of it, you see a list of all the films. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 18px;">There are many places on the net that offer artists and designers possibilities to create and sell their work.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Liseberg was once a private estate owned by the English Nonnen family who moved to Gothenburg in 1809.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Liseberg will soon open for Christmas and then it will be transformed with all the lights. But it is wonderful in the <a href="http://viktordonovan.blogspot.se/2014/05/liseberg-amusement-park-2014.html">summer</a> too of course.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sweden has an excellent reputation abroad as a very liberal country but is not so well known for its culture of ageism (the stereotyping of, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">and discrimination against individuals or groups on the basis of their age).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">In Sweden your age is pretty much stamped on your forehead all through your life. The "Swedish Social Security number" ( personnummer) is constructed of your birthday and four more digits. Whatever you do in Sweden, like applying for a job, your age is immediately apparent in your "personnummer". </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">In America it is not allowed to ask a person's age during a job interview. in Sweden it is always done. There it is inescapable. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the Swedish parliament only 8 of the 349 members are over 65. Compare that to America where many in Congress are over 80. Hillary Clinton would never have a chance as a politician in Sweden at 68. In the Social Democratic party manifesto, they want 25 % of the candidates to be under 35, but there is no such wishful percentage for any other age group. In Sweden we worship the young, but if you are young in Sweden, best hurry up, after 35 you are no longer considered "young and promising". </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22px;">As I read a few articles and essays on age </span></span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">discrimination in Sweden, it appears that many of the writers have concluded that the optimal age for Swedish workers is between 21 and 35 (</span><a href="http://www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/article10488199.ab" style="line-height: 22px;">Maria Scherer</a><span style="line-height: 22px;">). After that it is downhill. By 40-50 it seems definitely over for Swedes, writes a <a href="http://bo-i-usa.blogspot.se/">blogger</a> with <a href="http://www.news55.se/artiklar/man-ser-annorlunda-pa-alder-i-usa/">experience from both </a>America and Sweden. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unlike the US, where people often work until they are 80 or more, Sweden, being heavily unionised, has strict rules about retirement age. People here usually retire at 65 but one can work until 67 (by law) but after that’s it pretty much the end for most. There is an attitude that old people should leave space for the young to enter the job market. With lowered pensions, people now need to work past 67. But it is not easy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Everyone is not happy with this, including the handsome and vital TV anchorman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claes_Elfsberg">Claes Elfsberg </a>who has expressed the opinion that people should be allowed to work past 67. He was let go from his regular steady employment at 67 (silly he thinks) but he negotiated that he could <a href="http://www.news55.se/reportage-artiklar/claes-elfsberg-att-vi-gamlingar-behover-flytta-pa-oss-ar-en-myt/">continue work as freelancer</a> with his own production company.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This paralyzing age prejudice prevents employers in many cases from hiring anyone over 50. A 50 year old person is actually less likely to be absent from work than a younger person with children. With the generous paternity leave rules, a young employee can be absent for over a year with each child when a substitute would need to be hired. For many years, after the child is born, the parent can be absent whenever the child is ill, or has to go to the doctor, and so on. The work day might be interrupted with a call from the child care center telling the parent to fetch the ill child. All this is allowed by law and the parents get generous pay from the government for all these absences. Other employees must pitch in, of course. These are known facts, yet many employers still shun well qualified people because they are above 50. The age prejudice is so deep that the Swedish nation needs serious re-programming.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The pension system in Sweden</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> was reformed several years ago. It was jointly decided and passed in parliament by all the political parties but the people never really understood. They were never told what the outcome would be, namely lowered pensions. Unlike the American Social Security system that has funds in government bonds, Sweden depends on revenue from the current year’s taxes. Depending on the economy, pensions can go up or down every year. So far <i>they have gone down only</i>, even during “good economy” years. American pensioners see their Social Security entitlements go up almost every year according to the cost-of-living index. Swedes are not nearly so lucky.</span></div>
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When people in California read my new book <b><a href="http://agardeningothenburg.blogspot.se/">A GARDEN IN GOTHENBURG</a></b> they all commented on the succulents and cacti in some of my photos. Of course we bring them in for the winter, but they might still useful planting suggestions for Californians who dig up their lawns in order to plants drought-resistent plants.<br />
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Göteborgs Remfabrik (Gothenburg Belting Works) is a small weaving mill equipped wit specialised looms for the production of heavy woven belting for industrial purposes such as power transmission and conveyance.<span style="line-height: 1.7em;">The mill was established in 1891, but the present three-storey building dates from 1900 The texts <a href="http://remfabriken.se/en/about-remfabriken/">come from here,</a></span></div>
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Viktorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00361206209116491534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476953043312103930.post-90572541306899321582014-12-12T22:27:00.001-08:002014-12-12T22:43:27.225-08:00MERRY CHRISTMAS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Fresco paintings in a palace in Florence, Italy in 1459 </div>
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Viktorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00361206209116491534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476953043312103930.post-10414955513479948332014-07-21T00:58:00.001-07:002014-07-21T00:58:30.128-07:00LOVE LETTERS FROM MY SWEDISH GRANDFATHER TO MY AMERICAN GRANDMOTHER 1909-1961<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When my mother left me a lot of family correspondence, I was particularly touched by my grandfather Folke's letters to my grandmother Olga. There was a reason why he had written so many letters to her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My American grandmother, Olga, met my Swedish grandfather, Folke Jonsson, in Brussels in 1909. Olga was eighteen and Folke, twenty-three. They settled in Gothenburg and Särö, Sweden. Olga, being American, had her family in Florida, and Folke soon came to realize that if you marry a woman from another continent, and this woman is charmingly independent, innovative and brave, and has her own means to boot, she is bound to want to visit her native country some time -- or several times -- or more than several times. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> To Folke, a sensitive soul, the long separations were quite painful and he suffered till his darling Olga returned. He “talked” to her in his frequent letters. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Olga and Folke corresponded in English as Olga was American and preferred writing in English. Had my grandfather Folke married a Swedish woman who had stayed at home, there would not be this stack of his letters today. He never intended the letters to be shown to others, but more than one hundred years have passed since Folke wrote them to his darling Olga. I have enjoyed getting to know my grandfather in this manner and I think others, not only relatives, should also share that privilege.</span></div>
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Viktorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00361206209116491534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476953043312103930.post-33959183889886211042014-07-21T00:57:00.000-07:002016-04-11T23:08:04.752-07:00THE SEMINOLE HOTEL -- THE PLACE TO BE SEEN IN JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA IN 1913<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">When my twenty-two year old grandmother Olga Jonsson (Dawson) <a href="http://meromolgaochfolke.blogspot.se/2014/07/1913-olga-och-barnen-aker-till-florida.html">visited </a>her parents in Jacksonville, in 1913, she sometimes wrote to her Swedish husband Folke, on the stationary of the Seminole hotel. The family was often there and Olga wrote that it was a nice place to "go and write letters". Jacksonville at this time did not have many ten story buildings and this was probably a very popular place to eat or just "be seen". (For more about pretty Olga, the <a href="http://darlingolga.blogspot.se/">young girl from Jacksonville</a> who married the handsome Swede Folke, in Paris 1909)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">She wrote to her daughter Gunilla, in March of 1969, that the family was looking for a suitable buyer. She had suggested to her two nephews (Carl and Billy) who lived in Jacksonville that they should buy the building, fix it up and call it "The Dawson Building" in honor of their grandfather (and her father). But that never came about. But it would have been a good investment no doubt and a landmark had been preserved.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I seem to remember that grandmother Olga said that it would have been too costly for the hotel to add costly fire escapes, so the building had been handed over to the property owners, Olga and her siblings -- ironic, considering that when this hotel was built, it was advertised as "absolutely fireproof" (see the stationary above).</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.prairieschooltraveler.com/html/fl/kluthores/Klutho-Residence.html">Klutho home</a>, <a href="http://www.prairieschooltraveler.com/html/fl/panama/Panama-Park-School.html">Panama Park School</a>, <a href="http://www.prairieschooltraveler.com/html/fl/bisbee/Bisbee.html">Bisbee Building</a>, <a href="http://www.prairieschooltraveler.com/html/fl/stclair/St.Clair-Abrams.html">Alexander St.Claire-Abrams House</a>, <a href="http://www.prairieschooltraveler.com/html/fl/napier/Napier.html">Napier Apartments</a>, and <a href="http://www.prairieschooltraveler.com/html/fl/ymca/YMCA.html">YMCA building</a></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">SO IS THIS CHILDREN'S RIDE</span></td></tr>
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Viktorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00361206209116491534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476953043312103930.post-65332370905670091282014-04-23T07:24:00.000-07:002014-04-23T07:28:05.346-07:00MY GRANDMOTHER OLGA'S CADILLAC<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Viktorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00361206209116491534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476953043312103930.post-53239134392836631492014-03-10T11:32:00.002-07:002014-03-10T12:14:38.691-07:00ALMOST LIKE HOME<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you are an American in a Swedish clothing store, you will feel very much at home. Everything is in English and very "American". Must seem strange to Americans, but we are so used to it by now, we hardly notice it anymore. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I visited three stores downtown and found these examples.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Designers make all sorts of fake designs and combinations of American sounding names such as "army", "academy," "college", "team", "vintage" and combine them in very strange ways.</span></td></tr>
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Viktorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00361206209116491534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476953043312103930.post-90680009132524496122014-02-04T00:19:00.001-08:002014-02-04T00:37:52.386-08:00HELLO WASH CLOTH -- LONG TIME NO SEE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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California is facing a severe water shortage and people are told to cut their usage by 20 percent. Perhaps more if this shortage is long term. </div>
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There was a time once when people did not take a shower every day, when running hot water was a luxury and hot water was heated on a stove. Then you had to rely on a washing yourself in a basin and using a wash cloth (in Britain it is called a flannel). That is what people were used to and somehow it worked out just fine. </div>
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Maybe Californians will have to get acquainted with that old wash cloth again. It's not that hard. You start with the face and then do the arm pits, then the crotch and last the feet, which you have to lift up into the wash basin. Watch that balance!</div>
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Millions have done it before and millions might have to do it again. You will feel just fine and really appreciate that one shower a week you can allow yourself.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">For a long time you could not get a wash cloth at IKEA but now they are back. Just in time for Californians who have to cut back on showers.</td></tr>
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