A hundred innovative projects are tested throughout the territory to improve access to care.
In Angers, 30 elderly people with a loss of autonomy will not go to nursing homes… They are experimenting instead with a reinforced home support system (Drad). Carried by the French Mutuality, the Red Cross and the Hospitality Saint-Thomas de Villeneuve group, it offers a range of services provided by a team made up of a referent in a retirement home, social, medico-social and health actors. .
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The workers provide assistance with meals, washing, cleaning, support for administrative procedures, but also medical care, securing housing via home automation equipment (light paths, fall sensors, etc.), management of situations crisis, or social and leisure activities. “It’s much more than classic home care, an alternative to nursing homes: we coordinate the team, we secure housing and we strengthen geriatric expertiseswears Guénaëlle Haumesser, deputy director in the direction of the care offer of the Mutualité française…
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