A few days ago, the eighty-four residents of an Ehpad in Pulnoy (Meurthe-et-Moselle) were re-confined to their room after the death of a nonagenarian and the discovery of thirty-four cases of Covid-19: five among the staff and twenty-nine residents. In other establishments, it is residents who find themselves confined to their rooms and who are therefore again deprived of visits of their relatives …
Hence the question that hangs in the accommodation establishments for the elderly (Ehpad): are these residents preparing to experience a new confinement? We are living in a complicated phase. There are quite a few cases of Covid-19, but a lot of suspicion. We are testing. But we also ask ourselves questions: should we restrict visits?
recognizes Bertrand Coignec, vice-president of Fnadepa (National Federation of associations of directors of establishments and services for the elderly) and responsible for an nursing home in Plougastel (Finistère).
“They let themselves die”
According to the French public health agency, from August 3 to 16, 126 establishments (or 1.4% of the total) declared a new confirmed case of Covid-19. In these accommodations, the number of reports with at least one confirmed case has been increasing since early July
, observes the agency. And the number of deaths has increased slightly in the Grand Est region over the past week.
So what to do? A new confinement would no longer be tolerated by residents, families, or even by staff who sometimes had a very bad experience.
, declared Thursday the Minister Delegate in charge of Autonomy, Brigitte Bourguignon, on LCI. She pleads for targeted confinements: isolating contaminated residents from others and testing those around them.
But what do families think? We never ask for their opinion!
rebels Sabrina Deliry whose mother is in an nursing home in Paris, and who had led a hunger strike in April against the ban on visits. Within each establishment, there are social life councils in which families and residents are represented. We ask that they be involved in decisions
, she insists. With confinement, our parents let slip, die, in sadness and loneliness. Even in the event of isolation in the bedroom, why not allow a close referent to continue to come?
asks Philippe Prince of the association of families of victims of Covid-19 in nursing homes (Favicovid). Requests made to the Minister.
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