Yasmina Kattou, edited by Gauthier Delomez 11:11 a.m., February 09, 2022
The scandals around the Orpéa and Korian private nursing homes raise the question of the well-being of residents.
However, France is no exception in Europe, with neighbors that have adopted various management models for these establishments.
Europe 1 provides an overview of European countries.
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Is France the only one to experience scandals around its nursing homes?
While the Orpéa and Korian cases resound, Europe 1 looked at the model adopted by our European neighbors.
And the grass is not necessarily greener there.
In France, 22% of establishments dedicated to the elderly are managed by private groups, sometimes resulting in abuses.
In Spain, for example, 80% of nursing homes are for profit.
This is revealed by a survey by a consortium of journalists from the Investigate Europe site, published this summer.
As in France, Spanish institutions lack staff and resources.
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Is the Scandinavian model the model to follow?
On the second step of the European podium appears the United Kingdom, where 76% of nursing homes are private, and mostly owned by investment funds.
The investigation of the consortium of journalists also evokes testimonies of caregivers who treated the residents "like second-class citizens".
Relatives have also changed their establishment several times, for lack of satisfactory service.
It is the same observation in Germany, because of the lack of personnel.
Across the Rhine, of the 950,000 beds in retirement homes, four out of ten are intended to create profit.
However in Europe, the Scandinavian countries are an exception to these privatizations.
In Norway, only five establishments are not public.
Furthermore, Norwegians spend the most on the elderly, with 3.4% of the annual budget.
This is twice the European average.