“There is still a lot to do, especially to completely change the model of nursing homes”, estimated on Monday January 31 on franceinfo Monique Iborra, LREM deputy for the 6th district of Haute-Garonne, after the revelations about Orpea and the summons of its director general, this Tuesday, by Brigitte Bourguignon, minister responsible for the elderly. .
franceinfo: In 2018, you denounced in a report unsatisfactory care in the face of the increase in the dependency of residents. Did these revelations surprise you?
Monique Iborra: At this point, I’m surprised, but not about the malfunctions. We know very well that nursing homes today, as they are organised, no longer quite correspond to the quality of care that we are entitled to expect. A few years ago, retirement homes welcomed people between 60 and 65 years old. The nursing homes today are not retirement homes insofar as the people who are there did not choose to be there, the average age is not 60 but 85 and the people who are there need care because most of the time they have chronic illnesses and many of them have Alzheimer’s.
Have things changed since 2018?
Yes, within the framework of the financing of the Social Security law and after the report that I had made. Budgets have been greatly increased. There was no night nurse in nursing homes. Since 2018 and gradually this has been put in place.
“30% of nursing homes did not have coordinating doctors when it is an obligation.”
Monique Iborra, LREM MP for the 6th constituency of Haute-Garonneat franceinfo
Since 2018, the number of coordinating physicians has increased, although this is not satisfactory. If it is true that the staff has been increased, it has been at the level of orderlies and nurses.
What remains to be done?
There is still a lot to do, especially to completely change the model of nursing homes. As previously planned, this is no longer enough. People hardly want to go to nursing homes anymore, they want to stay at home. Elderly people must be allowed to stay at home with the necessary medical and social environment.