Inhalt
INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................10
1. OVERVIEW OF THE NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM.....................................11
1.1 Mandate.............................................................................................................11
1.2 Monitoring and control visits in numbers........................................................12
1.3 Budget................................................................................................................15
1.4 Human resources...............................................................................................16
1.4.1 Personnel.............................................................................................16
1.4.2
The commissions.................................................................................16
1.4.3
Human Rights Advisory Council.........................................................16
1.5 International cooperation.................................................................................17
1.6 Report of the Human Rights Advisory Council ................................................20
2. FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS......................................................................22
2.1 Retirement and nursing homes.........................................................................22
2.1.1 Introduction.........................................................................................22
2.1.2
Instruments for quality assurance .....................................................26
2.1.3
Violence prevention and de-escalation management........................28
2.1.4
Restriction of freedom through medication........................................32
2.1.5
Polypharmacy: implement the GEMED project nationwide...............35
2.1.6
Heat protection measures for those in need of care and the staff......38
2.1.7
Long waiting times for official procouncement of death
and inspection of the corpse................................................................40
2.1.8
Positive observations...........................................................................41
2.2 Hospitals and psychiatric institutions...............................................................43
2.2.1 Introduction.........................................................................................43
2.2.2
Spatial conditions - deficits and positive developments.....................46
2.2.3
Insufficient personnel..........................................................................49
2.2.4
Execution of measures that restrict freedom.......................................51
2.2.5
Violation of the right to wear private clothes.....................................53
2.2.6
Heat protection measures in Vienna hospitals and
psychiatric wards.................................................................................55
2.2.7
Lack of after-care facilities..................................................................56