DECRYPTION – Many solutions can replace establishments for dependent elderly people. Still confidential, they point to “a lack of political support”.
Daily deprivations, rationing, understaffing… in his book The Gravediggers, published Wednesday, January 26, the independent journalist Victor Castanet paints a vitriolic portrait of the operation of Ehpad Orpea. The result of three years of work, it is a whole system of “institutional abusewhich is highlighted. Far from being a first, this new scandal is part of a long list of revelations which regularly erode the confidence of the French people in these structures a little more.
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Problem, the latter are often seen by seniors or their children as the only point of fall once old age and dependence have come. However, there are many alternative solutions which unfortunately remain too little known to the French. Overview of a changing world.
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