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Ehpad: the voice of the "old" invites itself into the countryside

2022-01-10T18:45:21.443Z


While the health crisis has brought to light "dysfunctions", 17 associations of angry families are launching a platform which calls on the candidates for the presidential election on the rights of the elderly in retirement homes.


Make the voice of seniors heard in the presidential campaign.

After a year and a half of mobilization, 16 groups and associations of families fighting against the deprivation of liberty in nursing homes have decided to unite to defend the rights of the elderly.

This week, they are launching a platform

"For residents who are still citizens in Ehpad"

for the attention of presidential candidates to get them to take a position on old age.

Chance of the calendar, their plea for the rights of the elderly comes in the wake of the publication of the bestseller announced

Annihilate,

where Michel Houellebecq describes the nursing homes as

"vile dying".

Together, these associations represent more than 3,000 families involved in some 1,000 nursing homes.

"A large part of them were created by families of residents revolted by the closures of nursing homes, the keeping their relatives in isolation for too long months or by the impossibility of accompanying their loved one ...

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Source: lefigaro

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