Marie de Hennezel, clinical psychologist, has published numerous works, the latest of which,
L'Adieu interdict
(Plon, October 2020, 160 p., 16 €), highlights the human tragedies that occurred during confinement among the elderly and bereaved families. not having been able to accompany their relatives at the last moments of their life.
LE FIGARO.- A few hours before Emmanuel Macron's speech, Professor Rémi Salomon invited the French to separate “grandpa and grandma” from the rest of the family during the Christmas dinner and to install them in the kitchen.
Is this precaution excessive?
Isn't this a way of infantilizing the elderly?
Marie DE HENNEZEL.
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I am dismayed by the terms with which Professor Rémi Salomon allows himself to speak of the elderly by treating them as "grandpa and grandma".
What a lack of respect!
Our seniors are full citizens, perfectly capable of assuming their responsibilities and able to decide for themselves the risks they wish to take.
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