based on their findings regarding medical and health care. The institutions regularly responded to our recommendations, and in the majority of cases agreed with our findings or recommendations and assured us that some deficiencies had been already eliminated or that improvements were planned. The reports on individual visits (in abridged versions) are also available on the Ombudsman’s website. Regular visits in 2016 Črnuče Retirement Home Črnuče Retirement Home accommodates 157 residents. At the time of our visit, 155 residents were living in the home, i.e. 93 women and 62 men, with an average age of 83. Two secure wards were set up at the home: ‘B1 Planike’ and ‘C1 Spominčice’. Both wards were on the first floor and intended for persons at various stages and with various types of progressive dementia. Medvode Retirement Home Medvode Retirement Home accommodates 276 residents. Some 211 residents were living in the home at the time of our visit, i.e. 165 women and 46 men. The average age of residents was 85 years. A secure ward (ward 5) is located on the third floor and can accommodate 18 residents. Tisje Retirement Home Šmartno pri Litiji Tisje Retirement Home Šmartno pri Litiji has two units, Tisje and Litija. During the NPM’s visit, 165 residents were accommodated in Tisje Retirement Home; 31 men and 134 women. The average age of women was 84, and 79.31 for men. Some 89 residents live in the Litija Unit; 60 were women and 29 men. The average age of female residents was 83.57 years, and of male residents was 79.86 during the NPM’s visit. Podbrdo Retirement Home, Tolmin Unit Podbrdo Retirement Home, Tolmin Unit, can accommodate 138 residents; at the time of the NPM’s visit, their facilities were fully occupied. There were 43 men and 95 women. The dementia ward (Sonček) may accommodate 12 residents (one female resident was there only during the day); all beds were occupied at the time of the NPM’s visit. Ptuj Retirement Home, Jurišinci Unit Ptuj Retirement Home implements its activity in five units; one of these is in Jurišinci. The Jurišinci Unit was set up in February 2012 and is located in the immediate vicinity of the centre of Jurišinci. The unit may accommodate 57 people in single, double and triple rooms. At the time of the NPM’s visit, all beds were occupied. The Jurišinci Unit has a secure dementia ward; entry from the outside is possible at all times; exit is possible only with a key kept by the staff. The dementia ward can accommodate 14 residents and was full during the visit of the NPM. Ribnica Retirement Home Ribnica Retirement Home was established in 2008 and has 154 beds. The verified secure ward located on the first floor has 16 beds; at the time of the NPM’s visit, two additional beds had been put in two double rooms due to urgent admissions. Thus 18 residents were accommodated in the ward; the discussion partners explained that the situation was exceptional. The additional two beds would be free shortly due to a relocation and the transfer of one resident to home care. Since one resident of this ward was in hospital at the time of the NPM’s visit, there were actually 17 residents in the ward. Radenci Retirement Home Radenci Retirement Home can accommodate 178 residents, whereby 176 were living there at the time of the NPM’s visit, which was 98.88-per cent occupancy. The residents stay in 60 single and 59 double rooms. The wards are organised as household communities. The majority of residents with more or less explicit signs of dementia live on the first floor. This ward is called the ‘PIP-ward’7, avoiding the designation marking the dementia community. The high-level supervision ward has 23 beds. The residents stay in 5 single and 9 double rooms. Some 21 residents were accommodated in the high-level supervision ward at the time of the NPM’s visit, i.e. 18 women and 3 men. 7 Regarding the designation of the ward, we refer to this ward, which, according to the assessment of the NPM, meets the conditions of a secure ward as per the ZDZdr, as a high-level supervision ward in this Report. However, this is not a high-level supervision ward in the sense of the previous Guidelines on Working with Persons with Dementia, since the Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities had already amended the Guidelines accordingly and deleted these wards from the Guidelines. 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 27