Coronavirus: care of the elderly and disabled in confinement
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By: Caroline Paré Follow
While trips have been reduced to a minimum in France for almost 10 days, visits to seniors who reside in accommodation establishments for dependent elderly people have been suspended since March 11, 2020 for a period indeterminate.
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Visits are also prohibited for elderly hospitalized patients.
The confinement also concerns reception structures for disabled people.
How to manage the health of the elderly in times of epidemic crisis? How to understand a crisis in social ties?
- Dr Frédéric Béhar, geriatrician and nutritionist, head of service at the Dupuytren Hospital in Draveil in Essonne.
- Dr Gérard Berrut , Professor of Geriatric Medicine, head of the Geriatrics center of the Nantes University Hospital . Former president of the French society of Geriatrics and Gerontology.
- Testimony of Dr Vincent Ould Aoudia , President of the Pays de la Loire gerontopolis.
- Mathieu Lardjane , director of FAM, Foyer d'Accueil Médicalisé Simone Veil , in Paris.
- Marion , host in a nursing home in Bonneuil-sur-Marne in the Val-de-Marne (Paris region).
Useful links :
Government site during the coronavirus epidemic, dedicated to people with disabilities
Ehpad.fr which contributes to bringing relatives and residents of establishments together
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