Ehpad: the bill is higher depending on the territory

Micheline Berthier joined her husband at the Ehpad in the fall. They are now together. In total, their two bedrooms cost 4,600 euros per month. In Sartrouville, in the Paris region, it is a small private establishment with 39 residents, for an average of 2,300 euros per month. For Mireille Zaknoun, who comes to see her husband, it’s a big financial effort. “It’s overpriced”, she says. The establishment is however in the French average, at 2,214 euros.

It is even more expensive in Ile-de-France, Rhône, Bouches-du-Rhône, Alpes-Maritimes and southern Corsica. In Paris, it’s over 3,000 euros on average. Prices that an Ehpad manager attributes to the weight of the land, but it is above all the type of Ehpad that makes the difference. For UFC-Que Choisir, it is the concentration of private nursing homes in a given territory that drives prices up. The consumer association notably asks the new government to build at least 108,000 places by 2030 in the public.