“I am not on social networks but I decided to do so today, to both denounce a dysfunction and denounce mistreatment and negligence within the nursing home where my mother lived. This Tuesday, November 28, 2023, Sandrine Bonnaire posted a video via the Instagram account of comedian Jeanfi Janssens. And his revelations are chilling. Three months after the death of her mother, which occurred on August 23, 2023, she announced that “My family and I have gathered enough evidence for us to file a complaint. It is unthinkable that there is negligencemistreatment in certain establishments.” In October 2023, invited on the set of Jordan De Luxe on C8, Sandrine Bonnaire revealed to try “to understand above all why and how [sa mère] is dead”, insisting she wasn’t sick. At the time, she did not wish to say more, saying that she and her family were looking for “evidence”.
Scandal in nursing homes: highlighting a dramatic reality
Aware that her situation is far from isolated, Sandrine Bonaire stressed that“there have already been scandals, we know them, I know it’s going to be a long fight, but it’s a fight that I will fight to the end to restore dignity to my mother”. From the Orpea scandalhighlighted by the book The Gravediggers (ed. Fayard) by journalist Victor Castanet, reports have multiplied concerning living conditions in nursing homes: 821 reports between 2021 and 2023, announces the Defender of Rights, Claire Hédon, at Public Senate, almost as much as during the previous six years. In 43% of cases, the reports were made for cases of mistreatment. Since the Orpea scandal, several other nursing home groups have been singled out, like Emera or Medicharme. Commenting on Sandrine Bonnaire’s video, many Internet users testify to the mistreatment that their own parents experienced in nursing homes. In the middle of the messages, caregivers also express their distress : lack of staff, lack of resources… This Wednesday, November 29, 2023, an exceptional documentary will be broadcast on France 3baptized We caregivers, which provides an edifying assessment of the current French health system and its terrible flaws.
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