INTERVIEW
During the coronavirus crisis, the situation of the elderly often challenged. Confined in nursing homes or at home, particularly affected by the epidemic, seniors have paid, and still pay, a heavy price. But for psychologist Hélène Romano, "children have been the greatest forgotten in confinement". "There was no speech to explain to them what was going on. They were told that they were carriers, that they could make adults sick. It was a generation that experienced the attacks, a generation sacrificed, "she said on Friday evening on Europe 1.
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According to her, we are now exposed to an explosion of school anxiety disorders from May 11, the date on which some schools will reopen. "Stressed parents, if they are not reassured, will not be reassuring," notes Hélène Romano. Some children, especially those in care, were also neglected during the crisis. "For them, there was no follow-up. There were many abandonments of the most precarious people at this level," regrets the psychologist.
"Review the organization of society"
This crisis must therefore, she believes, make it possible to "review the organization of society to give more room to children" but also to seniors. "The two ends [of the age pyramid] are currently in great danger. We must review our societal logic on the notion of transmission. Helping children will also allow them to reconnect with the elderly, with the elderly from their families or others. " Hélène Romano cites for example links created between nurseries and nursing homes.
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For sociologist Jean Viard, also invited to Europe 1 on Friday evening, this notion of transmission is essential. And must go through another way of looking at housing, including social housing. "I have asked HLMs for a long time to install the elderly in their children's buildings, to accept intergenerational proximity," he said. "You have to think about the social around the family tribe, which the bourgeois people are already doing because they can afford to move their elders. In the social, it is prohibited. You have to decide that in an HLM tower, there there will be housing for the elderly and the people who care for them.