The Social Security budget provides for only 3,000 next year.
The government must respond to the difficultiesunheard of” in nursing homes by financing 20,000 recruitments in this sector from next year, instead of the 3,000 planned in the budget of the “Secu“, Pleaded Tuesday one of the main associations of directors of establishments. “Old people deserve better! We have been warning about this situation for years, but we have the feeling that we are never heard, never given priority.“, underlined during a press conference Jean-Pierre Riso, the president of the Fnadepa, which brings together around 1,400 of the 10,000 directors of nursing homes, autonomy residences and senior residences.
Retirement homes are facing serious recruitment difficulties and the exhaustion of current employees, which is further aggravated by the departure of many professionals, summarized Jean-Pierre Riso. And economic difficulties have been added to it, due to inflation and the non-compensation in full by the State of the salary increases recently granted to employees.
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The Minister for Solidarity, Jean-Christophe Combe, announced in mid-September that he would present within six months a “roadmapto respond to the crisis, but this timetable has upset the representatives of the sector, who are calling for “emergency measures“. To develop this “roadmap“, via “citizen workshops“, a first meeting with representatives of the sector is scheduled for October 11, according to the entourage of Jean-Christophe Combe.
On this subject, many consultations have already taken place for years, observed Jean-Pierre Riso: “everything has been said, everything has been written. We consider that this umpteenth consultation is useless and we have therefore not planned to participate in it.“, he said Tuesday.
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