Table of Content
Introduction................................................................................................................11
1.1 Overview of the National Preventive Mechanism....................................................13
1.1 Mandate.............................................................................................................13
1.2 Monitoring and control visits in numbers........................................................14
1.3 Budget................................................................................................................17
1.4 Human resources...............................................................................................18
1.4.1 Personnel.............................................................................................18
1.4.2
The commissions.................................................................................18
1.4.3
Human Rights Advisory Council.........................................................18
1.5 International collaboration and cooperation...................................................18
1.6 Report fo the Human Rights Advisory Council.................................................21
2.2 Findings and recommendations................................................................................23
2.1 Retirement and nursing homes.........................................................................23
2.1.1 Introduction.........................................................................................23
2.1.2
(Human) Righst of residents in retirement and nursing homes.........27
2.1.3
Complaint management.....................................................................30
2.1.4
Hospice culture and palliative care.....................................................32
2.1.5
Drug safety - polypharmacy...............................................................35
2.1.6
Misplacement of persons with chronic illnesses in
Styrian nursing home..........................................................................38
2.1.7
Positive observations...........................................................................39
2.2 Hospitals and psychiatric institutions...............................................................42
2.2.1 Introduction.........................................................................................42
2.2.2
Hidden violence in day-to-day routine of psychiatric hospitals.........46
2.2.3
Application of measures that restrict freedom....................................48
2.2.4
Measures that restrict freedom prescribed in advance.......................50
2.2.5
Inadequate child and adolescent psychiatric care.............................51
2.2.6
Deficits in regional inpatient psychiatric care....................................56
2.2.7
De-escalation training programmes...................................................57
2.2.8
Protection of privacy and personal space...........................................58
2.2.9
Long-term stays of psychiatric patients..............................................59