Introduction: When an elderly person is no longer able to live in his domestic environment, he or she is forced to seek help in an elderly citizens home. There are various reasons for leaving the domestic environment such as: age, loneliness, weakness, physical and mental diseases, the family´s inability to take care of the elderly family member. One of the main reasons for going to the elderly citizens home is bad health condition, since most elderly citizens are sent to elderly citizens homes directly from hospitals. The elderly citizens homes ensure every form of assistance by which the function of home and family is substituted. Especially, when it comes to residing, organised nutrition, protection and health care. The fundamental human rights and all rights which are guaranteed by the Patient Right’s Act must be provided for the residents. Purpose: The purpose of the thesis is to study and determine which rights of nursing homes residents are most frequently violated and what are the reasons that the residents and their family members seek the Ombudsman’s help according to the Labour Inspektorate of the Republic of Slovenia’s report, two Ljubljana Higher Court’s conclusions, and the Human Rights Ombudsman’s annual reports. Methods: Data regarding the assurance of residents rights in an institutional care were obtained by analysing and comparing documents provided by institutions responsible for protection of the institutional care residents rights. Descriptive method and comparative method of research in the field of law by examining domestic and foreign literature along with online sources were used to collect data for the purpose of the thesis. Results: The facts indicate that the rights of elderly homes are still frequently violated. Discussion and conclusion: It is hard to determine the exact number of elderly homes citizens whose rights are being violated and which are those rights since only a few of them decide to seek Ombudsman’s help. Nevertheless, the fact that many initiatives regarding the violation of the human rights in elderly homes turn out to be unjustified is promising. Based on the analysis of Ombudsman’s annual reports, we can conclude that the detected violations are very often a result of the lack of employees and the places being unsuitable. After these problems are solved, we may expect that the number of violated rights will decrease.
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