Retirement Home Idila Retirement Home Idila can accommodate 165 residents; at the time of the NPM’s visit, 161 residents were living the home. Some 19 residents (one bed was empty at the time of our visit) were in one secure ward, and 24 residents were in the other ward, which was full. The home has two secure wards; one on the ground floor and one on the first floor. Kranj Retirement Home Kranj Retirement Home disposes of 214 beds; there are actually 213 beds and one additional bed, usually for accommodating a person from day care. At the time of the NPM’s visit, the home housed 213 residents, and they were expecting a new female resident. The secure ward can accommodate 21 residents, and was fully occupied at the time of the NPM’s visit. The home had one secure ward, which was to be verified in the future. Trnovo Retirement Home Trnovo Retirement Home has 156 beds, and one verified secure ward with 20 beds. At the time of our visit, 20 residents were accommodated in the secure ward (100-per cent occupancy), i.e. 14 women and 6 men. Polde Eberl Jamski Retirement Home in Izlake The dementia ward or the secure ward, named ‘Rožmarin’, is situated on two floors of Polde Eberl Jamski Retirement Home. The ward accommodates 19 residents; at the time of the NPM’s visit, all beds were occupied. Laško Retirement Home Laško Retirement Home disposes of a total of 78 rooms with 165 beds, of which 13 are in single rooms, 42 are in double rooms and 23 are in triple rooms. During the NPM’s visit, the home was fully occupied. Twelve residents were staying in a household unit. Living conditions In Trubar Retirement Home, the NPM noticed the lack of systematic planning of activities for residents with various stages of progressive dementia. The NPM recommended that activities be substantively supplemented. A programme of activities could be prepared for a month/week in advance and displayed in visible places on wards. The NPM proposed reviving the premises of the home’s café of Trubar Retirement Home, where residents could socialise with visitors, or these premises could be used for other activities. The programme of activities in Danica Vogrinec Retirement Home is very versatile, enabling residents to participate in many different activities. More activities mean more opportunities for each resident to find an activity that suits them best. We recommended that this practice be continued. The innovativeness of the home in introducing new contents (football matches, concerts, hot-air ballooning etc.) was commended, but we noted that interesting activities should not all be intended only for the population, which is agile and mobile. The home must not neglect or forget about the entertainment of residents suffering from various illnesses. Not many rooms in Danica Vogrinec Retirement Home enable more private socialising of residents with their relatives or other visitors or where they could talk about more intimate matters, so we proposed that the management examine the possibility of arranging more such premises. We proposed to Lambrecht Retirement Home in Slovenske Konjice that they consider introducing a special register of exits of individual residents for fresh air also for the ‘Mavrica Unit’. The register could record which residents were outside. This would prevent certain residents being forgotten, who would thus remain only on the ward or even in their rooms for lengthy periods. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE NPM IN 2016 NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM UNDER THE OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE UN CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT 29