If they are meaningful and inserted in the territories, the professions of old age, often unknown, considered difficult and poorly paid, struggle to attract: before the Covid, 63% of nursing homes claimed to have a vacant position for six months or more.
And the health crisis has worsened these tensions on employment:
"In addition to the usual
understaffing,
we are registering resignations and departures, exhausted staff do not want to return"
, indicates Florence Arnaiz-Maumé, general delegate of Synerpa, representing private retirement homes.
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The number one in the sector, Korian, has just announced that it wants to recruit 9,000 people on permanent contracts and 800 apprentices by 2022 in the care professions.
The very illustration of the needs necessary to face the health crisis in the short term, but above all to face in the long term the challenges of the aging of the population when the number of people over 75 will have increased by 42% between 2015 and 2030. Beyond turnover and retirements,
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