CONGRÈS ÂGE 3 & HANDICAP - LILLE 2024: Professional Congress on Retirement Homes and Structures Welcoming Dependent Elderly People

The nursing home is criticized from all sides. Presumed guilty, no matter what. The director would be a bad manager, a bad employer too, the establishment would deprive fundamental freedoms, would even be mistreating... And if the problem was elsewhere... If it resided in generalized ageism... Because let's remember, retirement homes shelter old people, elderly people, whom society often does not want to see... At the same time, the model is running out of steam. Due to a lack of resources, but also due to a lack of meaning. After the Covid crisis, after the Orpea affair, and in the face of the population surge, it seems a priority to challenge the current model of establishments. But how to proceed? How to transform the establishment into a real home? How to find it a new legitimate place in the support offer? The state is promoting a hyper-medicalized Ehpad against a scalable and adapted home. It is difficult in these conditions not to reject the Ehpad. However, and although considered a risk, the rejection of nursing homes may represent an opportunity. In any case, this is the theme that we propose to you for this year 2024. Lay the foundations of a different model for welcoming and caring, restoring meaning and attractiveness, transforming a risk into an opportunity.

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