Ehpad: around sixty recommendations to guarantee residents' freedom
There are many examples of infringement of fundamental rights, respect for dignity, but also the integrity of people residing in nursing homes.
RFI / Charlie Dupiot
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The rights of nursing home residents "greatly hampered" during the health crisis, this is what Claire Hédon, the Defender of Rights, points out in a report published on Tuesday, May 4.
She makes some sixty recommendations to guarantee their freedom.
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Carrying out screening tests without consent, maintaining restrictions on outings during periods of deconfinement, banning visits for several weeks, and even, sometimes, the impossibility for families to see their deceased loved ones, because they are immediately put in beer.
There are many examples of infringement of fundamental rights, respect for dignity, but also the integrity of people residing in nursing homes.
As proof, out of the 900 complaints collected over the past six years and addressed to the Defender of Rights, to denounce the conditions of medico-social support for the elderly, 80% implicate these establishments.
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Establishments where, as the report shows, the right to private and family life has been hindered much more than for the rest of the population.
To ensure the freedom of residents, Claire Hédon made some sixty recommendations.
Among them, the appointment of a “
consent referent
”, or even ensuring that decisions relating to the strengthening of health measures are proportionate and taken for a fixed period.
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