and decorative items with the help of staff or occupational therapists. The NPM also suggested that the residents and their relatives be encouraged to decorate rooms with homely items and thus make the already pleasant rooms resemble their home environment even more. In their reply to the preliminary report, the management of the home expressed gratitude for fair treatment and for the NPM’s findings and proposals, which they stated would be fully observed. The NPM recommended that pictures be put on doors or that the doors of rooms be decorated with colours in Kranj Retirement Home to facilitate recognition of individual rooms in which the residents were accommodated. In their reply to the preliminary report, the management of the home expressed gratitude for fair treatment and for the NPM’s findings and proposals, which they stated would be fully observed. The NPM recommended that the staff of Ribnica Retirement Home encourage residents and their relatives to incorporate more personal items, particularly photos, which on the one hand would link the residents with the social environment from which they came, and on the other hand could assist in the therapy of dementia patients by stimulating their memory. In their reply to the preliminary report, the management of the home explained that they would try to establish cooperation also with relatives, who had been unresponsive in the past. They would thus try to obtain personal items that would remind the residents of their lives at home. The NPM proposed that Radenci Retirement Home improve the readability of material and information presented on the notice board by removing the dining table and chairs in front of the board, or moving the notice board to a more suitable place, or in another way. The management of the home thanked the NPM for their comments, proposals and commendations, which they stated that they would try to observe to the best of their abilities and as much as possible during their work. Since the management failed to provide a precise reply, except a general clarification regarding the recommendation, we understood that the recommendation had been accepted and that the management would try to realise it. The NPM recommended that additional decoration of premises (e.g. also with items made by residents) be considered in Trnovo Retirement Home, which contributes to the homeliness and friendliness of the premises. The management of the home replied to the preliminary report by stating that the proposal had already been discussed and progress would be made in that direction. Although the NPM is aware that residents of Trnovo Retirement Home must not be forced to decorate their rooms if they do not want to, the NPM recommended that residents be encouraged to bring their personal belongings, decorate their rooms according to their wishes and use items that remind them of the environments they came from. If two residents are accommodated in one room, the wishes of both residents must be observed in order to prevent the wishes of one resident encroaching on the wishes of the other. In their reply to the preliminary report, the management of the home explained that the staff had already been encouraging residents to arrange rooms according to their wishes, and emphasised that the wishes of both residents in double rooms had to be harmonised in not to encroach upon each other’s wishes. The NPM recommended that a clock be installed in communal areas of the secure ward in Trnovo Retirement Home to facilitate orientation of residents in time. 38 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