Justice is investigating possible acts of mistreatment of elderly people in a nursing home of the private DomusVi group in Toulouse, the prosecution announced on Monday January 15. The investigation, opened at the beginning of December after a report from the regional health agency (ARS) of Occitanie, aims in particular to establish whether there has been “mistreatment of vulnerable people”told Agence France-Presse (AFP) the public prosecutor of Toulouse, Samuel Vuelta-Simon.
Among the documents available to investigators is a transcription of recordings made by the daughter of a resident of the Résidence de l’Ecuyer nursing home. According to local online media Mediawhich revealed the existence of these recordings, we hear one or more employees insulting this 91-year-old man – treated, among other things, as ” bastard “ – or address him in a disrespectful tone to say in particular: “You’re pissing me off. Plus, you have shit everywhere. »
Two years after the Orpea scandal, which cast a harsh light on senior residences, another private group, Emera, was accused in December of failings by families and “abuse” by the CGT. An investigation was opened in Gironde for “habitual violence against vulnerable people”, after a complaint targeting an establishment of the group.
Concerning Orpea, suspected of institutional mistreatment, the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office declared on January 8 that it had opened a judicial investigation against The private nursing home union Synerpa presented in January 2023 a ” charter “ For “put ethics and transparency back at the heart of supporting the elderly”signed by 1,827 members, including the main groups in the sector: Korian, Colisée and DomusVi.