It was a moment of emotion. After almost six weeks of isolation, Monique Richer, resident at the Bellevue nursing home in Saint-Gobain, in Aisne, was able to see her children again. "I cried, but not in front of them. I am sensitive.", She confides still upset at the microphone of Europe 1. If this 89-year-old mother was able to spend 30 minutes with mask and gloves near part of his relatives is that the government has relaxed the confinement rules for family visits to nursing homes since the beginning of the week.
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Visits for those who suffer the least not to see their loved one
But few like Monique Richer were able to see relatives on Monday. These visits indeed require the medico-social establishments to have a particular organization and staff that they do not necessarily have. So the Ehpad prioritize, and allow visits above all to residents who refuse to eat, or who sink into depression by loneliness. The director of the establishment in Saint-Gobain, Florence Kovac, therefore put this residence in the first names on her list, and gave her a nice surprise.
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"It does a huge good"
"We took Madame Richer for a little walk outside, we put her on a garden chair and then, when she saw her son and daughter Agnès, she froze," he says. she. Like her mother, Agnes "started to cry": "It's been over a month and a half since I last saw her! Even if you can't kiss or touch each other with the mask and gloves, that’s a huge benefit. "
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For the other residents, we will have to be patient for a few days, since the protective equipment is being distributed in the nursing homes.