"
There's no alternative
", ("
There is no plan B
"), proclaimed Margaret Thatcher about the market society.
The elected PS Luc Broussy applies this slogan to nursing homes.
The president of the Silver Economy sector, author of the report intended for the government “We will grow old together”, hammers it:
“there is no credible and viable alternative for dependents.
Not even the home?
“
Home care very often means that the elderly are alone.
When you imagine that 9,000 of them die of a fall each year
and that 530,000 are in a situation of social death…”
that is to say without or with little contact, an increase of 77% in 4 years alerted The Little Brothers of the Poor in 2021.
Luc Broussy's observation is clear.
And during the confinement, he did not understand that the ex-minister Michèle Delaunay suggested to families who could to “
take their parents home
”.
“
It was disconnected from the reality of the French.
We are not in the countryside in the 60s.
It
would be known if people had an extra room.
Despite everything, according to the 2019 report of the Department of Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics (DREES), in 2015, 160,000 people lived this way: in roommates with their aging parents.
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