We checked three statements by candidates for the Elysée on nursing homes

• The revelations about ill-treatment in the nursing homes of the Orpea group have made this issue a theme of the presidential campaign.

• We have verified several statements by candidates for the Elysée.

• Who is telling the truth?

  20 Minutes

  takes stock.

In recent weeks, a new theme has emerged in the presidential campaign: the living conditions of residents in Ehpad.

Elderly people "rationed", abandoned in their excrement or left without care for days...: less than two months before the election, the publication of the book

, by journalist Victor Castanet, highlighted the mistreatment in establishments of the Orpea group.

However, the problem is not new, if we are to believe the whistleblowers who have been trying to speak out for several years.

A subject concerning for a large number of French people, and which the candidates in the race for the Elysee Palace did not hesitate to seize.

All have announced that they want to allocate significant resources to restructure the establishments which welcome the alumni.

Recruitment of staff, reinforcement of the presence of medical teams, increase in controls… Some, like Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Fabien Roussel even wish to put an end to profit-making nursing homes to favor those managed by municipalities or associations.

Beyond the promises,

has verified several assertions by suitors for the Elysée on the situation in these establishments.

FAKE OFF

• Jean-Luc Mélenchon: "A quarter [of nursing homes] are private companies"

True.

During his meeting on February 3 in Tours, Jean-Luc Mélenchon expounded at length on his point of view on the living conditions of the elderly.

Its positioning is clear: “No profit on our alumni!

Are a quarter of retirement homes nevertheless managed by private companies?

The statements made by the rebellious candidate are correct.

According to the "Panorama of nursing homes 2021" published last January by Unisanté, a company specializing in publishing databases on nursing homes, of the 7,353 establishments in France, "44.5% are public structures, 31, 5% of associative structures and 24% of private structures.

“Stable figures since the share of private companies is the same as for the year 2020.

Unisanté notes that the distribution is not homogeneous on the territory: “Public establishments are in the majority in the rural departments, commercial establishments in urban areas and associative structures in the East of France and this for historical reasons.

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• Anne Hidalgo: "Today there are no nurses and doctors at night in nursing homes"

Rather true.

Guest of the program

on February 6 on France 3, Anne Hidalgo was questioned about nursing homes.

The current mayor of Paris wanted a “strong public service” in this area, and took the opportunity to tackle the outgoing president: “The major dependency reform that was announced by Emmanuel Macron has been further delayed.

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On the presence of nursing staff in establishments at night, the candidate forced the line.

Still according to the panorama produced by Unisanté, “16% of nursing homes have set up a device [infirmier] at night (presence or on-call).

This implementation differs according to the status of the establishment: 20% in the public against 10% in private or associative nursing homes.

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Although low, these figures nevertheless represent the first effects of a plan launched in 2018 by Agnès Buzyn to respond to the problem of the absence of "permanent care" at night.

Very often, in the event of health concerns at night, the elderly are, for lack of medical personnel in nursing homes, taken to the emergency room even if their condition does not require it.

To compensate for these unnecessary expenses and this inconvenience for residents, Agnès Buzyn had therefore announced the generalization of a device hitherto tested in Ile-de-France: the pooling of night nurses in nursing homes.

A year later, the first results in six territories having set up on-call or guards were deemed "encouraging" by the National Agency for Health and Medico-Social Performance.

Marine Le Pen: “Today there are 66% of nursing homes whose positions have not been filled for more than six months.

30% of nursing homes do not have a coordinating doctor”

False. 

Even before the publication of the

on January 26, Marine Le Pen spoke on the subject while visiting the municipal nursing home in Fréjus on January 20.

She took the opportunity to recall her fights: the fight against medical desertification and "the revaluation of the salaries of nursing staff".

However, the recruitment difficulties are not as significant as claimed by the candidate, whose team did not respond to requests from

to find out the source of her figures.

In a study called

"Staff and recruitment difficulties in nursing homes" published in June 2018, Dress reveals that "caregiver positions in hospital nursing homes are […], rarely vacant for more than six months.

In fact, only 6% of these structures have unfilled coordinating physician positions and only 3% have nursing assistant positions.

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The study noted a significant difference between the public and private sector: “13% of nursing homes in the non-hospital public sector have unfilled coordinating doctor positions, compared to 8% of private for-profit structures.

Conversely, 16% of the latter have unfilled nursing assistant positions, compared to 6% of non-hospital public structures.

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