2025-03-192024/25:SoU21 · p.1SoUHealth & social services

Future elderly care

The case for a dedicated Elderly Care Act

What's at stake: The quality of elderly care currently varies between municipalities, with shortcomings including medical competence and coordination. The question is whether a dedicated Elderly Care Act, separate from the rest of social services, would give older people stronger and more equal rights, or whether such a split risks weakening the holistic view of the individual's needs.

Case texts and AI reasoning are AI-translated from the Swedish originals; the Swedish text is authoritative.

What the vote decides

The motions called for the government to proceed with the proposal for a dedicated Elderly Care Act to create equally high quality care nationwide, while the committee agreed with the government's assessment that elderly care should continue to be regulated within the existing Social Services Act.

Yes Yes — the committee proposal

The committee agrees with the government's assessment that a holistic view of the individual's needs risks being weakened if elderly care is separately regulated in its own law apart from the rest of social services, and notes that the government has chosen not to proceed with the inquiry's proposal for an Elderly Care Act, instead continuing to process parts of the proposal within the framework of the Social Services Act.

No No — the reservations

Reservation 1 (S, V, MP)

The reserving parties (S, V, MP) hold that the regulatory framework for Swedish elderly care is not adequate, with uneven quality across the country and shortcomings in medical competence and coordination, and that a dedicated Elderly Care Act is a decisive step to strengthen, safeguard, and modernise care. They regret that the government is not proceeding with the proposal for such a law, which the inquiry submitted with the aim of creating elderly care of equally high quality based on the individual's needs and participation.

Summarised from the committee report. Party labels in the summary come from the report, not from the vote.

V–

S–

MP–

C–

L–

KD–

M–

SD–

YesNoAbstainAbsent

What do the votes mean here?

Yes The committee proposal: rejecting the motions (keeping things as they are).

No Backing the counter-proposal: reservation 1 by S, V, MP.

Abstain The party marks a position of its own that is not one of the two final alternatives.

The plan's stance / Actual vote

	AI	Vote
Vown reservation	–	No 1/20/0/3
Sown reservation	–	No 0/93/0/13
MPown reservation	–	No 0/16/0/2
C	–	Abstain 0/0/20/4
L	–	Yes 15/0/0/1
KD	–	Yes 17/0/0/2
M	–	Yes 60/0/0/8
SD	–	Yes 62/0/0/10

Broke with the party line

VHåkan Svenneling (V, Värmlands län)

Yes — party line: No

MPs whose vote differs from their party's majority position in this division. Marked with a dark ring in the chamber view.

Committee proposal

Parliament rejects the motions 2024/25:1029 by Kerstin Lundgren (C) and 2024/25:3022 by Fredrik Lundh Sammeli et al. (S) demands 85 and 87.

Original (Swedish)

Riksdagen avslår motionerna 2024/25:1029 av Kerstin Lundgren (C) och 2024/25:3022 av Fredrik Lundh Sammeli m.fl. (S) yrkandena 85 och 87.

Riksdag decision: Parliament voted no to approximately 60 proposals on elderly care in motions from the general motion period 2024. The proposals concern, among other things, the organization and function of elderly care, health and medical care within elderly care, and elderly care personnel. Parliament refers, among other things, to ongoing work in the area.

Counter-proposals

The counter-proposal wants the government to implement an elderly care act to ensure equivalent and high-quality elderly care. (S, V, MP) — Reservation 1

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Sources and documents

The committee report on riksdagen.se (2024/25:SoU21)
Committee report full text (HC01SoU21)
Per-MP voting data (API)
Case status (API)

Documents under consideration

Motion 2024/25:1029 — Kvalitet i äldrevården av Kerstin Lundgren (C)
Motion 2024/25:1364 — Folkhälsan i fokus av Carina Ståhl Herrstedt m.fl. (SD)
Motion 2024/25:1365 — God vård och omsorg för äldre av Carina Ståhl Herrstedt m.fl. (SD)
Motion 2024/25:1412 — Jämställdhet och diskriminering av Michael Rubbestad m.fl. (SD)
Motion 2024/25:1527 — Skydds- och tvångsåtgärder inom vården och omsorgen för äldre personer av Peder Björk och Malin Larsson (båda S)
Motion 2024/25:1635 — Språkkrav i välfärden av Lawen Redar (S)
Motion 2024/25:183 — Förbättrade måltider för äldre i det offentliga av Catarina Deremar (C)
Motion 2024/25:1851 — Lagen om valfrihetssystem (LOV) inom välfärdsområdet av Jessica Rodén och Petter Löberg (båda S)
Motion 2024/25:2224 — Språkkrav inom vård och äldreomsorg av Johanna Rantsi (M)
Motion 2024/25:2234 — Utdrag ur belastningsregister för personer som arbetar med äldre av Johanna Rantsi (M)
Motion 2024/25:2358 — Svenska språket inom äldreomsorgen av Peter Hultqvist (S)
Motion 2024/25:2392 — Kognitiva sjukdomar som leder till demens av Mats Sander (M)
Motion 2024/25:2395 — Heltäckande registerutdrag för personal inom offentlig verksamhet av Caroline Högström (M)
Motion 2024/25:2493 — Bemanning i verksamheter nära medborgarna av Gunilla Svantorp m.fl. (S)
Motion 2024/25:2515 — Lagen om valfrihetssystem av Markus Kallifatides m.fl. (S)
Motion 2024/25:2553 — Språktest för arbete i omsorg och äldreomsorg av Ann-Sofie Lifvenhage (M)
Motion 2024/25:2675 — Möjlighet att anställa kommunala läkare av Ann-Sofie Lifvenhage (M)
Motion 2024/25:2701 — Pilotprojekt - seniorhälsa av Ann-Sofie Lifvenhage (M)
Motion 2024/25:2772 — Språkkrav för vissa jobb inom omsorgen av Sten Bergheden (M)
Motion 2024/25:2774 — Äldres möjligheter att få bo kvar i sin hemkommun av Sten Bergheden (M)

Source: The Swedish Parliament