The entry and exit of residents should gradually return. retirement homes “that do not report more cases of possible or confirmed Covid-19” must
The entry and exit of residents should gradually return.
Retirement homes “that do not report any more cases of possible or confirmed Covid-19” must submit a plan for a gradual return to normality by Monday, in order to allow visits without appointment and outings of residents, Olivier Véran announced on Tuesday.
This “additional step in the deconfinement” of institutions for the accommodation of dependent elderly persons (Ehpad) must be “adapted to the situation” of each structure, according to the press release of the Minister of Solidarity and Health, who will publish on Tuesday, the “framework document” for this measure. These “return to normal” plans must “ensure priority, the sooner the better, the continuation of visits to relatives without an appointment,” the ministry adds.
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Gradually, directors of long-term care facilities will also have to re-authorize “performance, individual and collective, and social life within the facility,” as well as on-site staff visits. And they will have to put an end to being locked in a room, the same source states.
“important notices”
In a speech on Sunday evening, President Emmanuel Macron announced that visits to elderly people in retirement homes “will now be allowed”, without further details. “These are important announcements, because it is necessary to give the elderly more freedom. Facilitating visits goes in this direction,” replied Romain Gizolme, the association of directors of homes for the elderly Ad-pa.
The chief representative of Synerpa (long-term care facilities and private), Florence Arnaiz-Maumé, also welcomed the announcement, stressing that the sector is the applicant for “progressive” relaxation measures, which would accompany the deconfinement until the end of the public health emergency.
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“We are leaving the possibility of a red button, that is, to return to the small letters of the discovered Covid”, she added. Visits to facilities for the elderly who have lost autonomy have been banned since March 11, six days before the general lockdown, to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
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They were allowed gradually from April 20, but under very strict conditions – families were forced to make an appointment in advance. At the beginning of June, a small concession was decided, allowing more than two people to visit at once, and the possibility of bringing minors on condition that they wear a mask. The Ministry of Health stated that “nearly 45% of long-term care facilities are still reporting at least one case of Covid-19”.
Date of update: 16 June 2020, 09:58
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Source: newstars.edu.vn