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"Let us free the nursing homes from a precautionary principle taken to the extreme!"

2021-02-25T19:01:58.365Z


TRIBUNE - For a year, elderly people have suffered and sometimes died from lack of contact with their loved ones, argue the members of the Circle of Caregivers in Ehpad (CPAE), supported by several personalities * including actress Stéphanie Bataille, comedian Élie Semoun or ...


Who is the death knell for in Ehpad?

It rings for our mothers, our fathers, our spouses.

Not only is the government's promise to “protect without isolate” not kept, it is reversed;

they are isolated without being protected.

Isolated because twenty minutes of "visiting room" every fortnight behind a Plexiglas in a supervised common space, these are neither dignified conditions nor an acceptable frequency of visits, especially for people who are often hearing impaired, visually impaired or have fairly widely cognitive disorders. rushed by lack of emotional and intellectual stimulation for a year now.

And they are not for all that protected because the virus continues to enter, to which is added the virus - no less fatal - of confinement and the feeling of abandonment: the slip.

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Yann Reboulleau: "It is time to relax the measures in nursing homes"

The residents are infantilized - in the etymological sense of

infans

, the one who has no voice.

They do not really have a voice, including within the social life councils (CVS).

Families

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Source: lefigaro

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