After I help my parent to grow old standingher guide for caregivers published in 2016 and just republished, Annie de Vivie, founder of agevillage and agevillagepro, director of Humanitude training, signs a second book, Aging standing: they take up the challenge!
In this book, Annie de Vivie goes back to the origins of the Humanitude approach and of the label, by drawing a portrait of a dozen establishments: Ehpad, Fam (medical care home for people with disabilities), accommodation temporary…) labeled.
By exploring the impacts, lessons and limits of the Humanitude Label and by giving the floor to the authors Yves Gineste and Rosette Marescotti, but also to Marie-Françoise Fuchs, founder of Old Up (Old Up!), Annie de Vivie delivers a constructive message to professionals, families and all of us caregivers:
There are many places of collective life where you can feel at home, where care is present, solid but discreet, open establishments, resources of the territory.
The author explains in this bookthat staff are strangled by the shortcomings of this notoriously under-resourced, neglected sector. They are stuck in the traps, the unthought around our vulnerability.
“Personnel feel helpless, even abandoned, in the face of the critical situations that our society asks them to support with paradoxical injunctions: guarantee freedom and security, take care without abandon and without relentlessness.”
Less than 80% behavioral problems among residents, seven times less neuroleptics consumed, reduction in burnout.
The Humanitude label is the first well-treatment label, created by committed professionals (directors, executives, doctors, trainers, etc.), it guarantees the quality of “taking care” through the five principles of Humanitude: zero force care, without abandonment of care, respect for intimacy and singularity, live and die upright (no bedridden people), opening of the structure to the outside (families, volunteers, outings, events), place of life – place of desires (personalized support projects).
This label is issued for five years by the Asshumevie association, whose experts verify on site the adequacy between the “taking care” offered and the 300 criteria of the evaluation manual.
Engaging in the labeling project means enhancing its structure, uniting teams, families and customers around a demanding and qualitative approach. All these structures are supported according to their needs by the Humanitude training organisations: the Gineste-Marescotti Institutes.