In the face of recruitment difficulties, housing managers for dependent elderly people are forced to leave vacant places.
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Two caregivers suspended because not vaccinated, two nurses in maternity leave and annual leave that it had to be given to others. And above all, no replacement available. “It’s impossible to find replacements, the temporary boxes are stormed, explains Fabienne Chardin, the director of the accommodation for the elderly (EHPAD) of Loubeyrat (Puy-de-Dôme) . I made the decision to suspend admissions not to put an additional weight on the staff who are already under tension due to COVID. “
M me Chardin has therefore left two empty rooms, on the sixty-eight of the establishment, on September 16, an adverse event report to the regional agency of Health (ARS) Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. This situation, in the region, is not isolated. At the Ars Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, we recognize that there are EHPAD “who regulate their entries”. It’s also true elsewhere.
The Association of Directors Serving Seniors (ADAP), which brings together EHPAD and home care directors, at the national level, fired the alarm signal. “Due to the difficulty of recruiting professionals, 20% of hospital beds are closed, wrote AD-PA in a statement of October 26th. The situation is the same for assistance to the elderly: many Home Services can not help all those who want it for lack of professionals, and number of elderly institutions close places for the same reasons. This particularly worrying situation will become totally unbearable. “
“There is fatigue”
Pascal Champvert, the president of the ad-Pa, however, does not have an accurate figure on the bed closures in the EHPAD and admits that the 20% is probably largely exaggerated. But the situation remains, according to him, concern: “The public authorities tell us:” You only have to operate in degraded mode. “Concretely, that means not helping a senior to get up or no longer accompany it for the toilet. “
Brigitte Bourguignon, the Minister responsible for autonomy, sweeps from a reverse of hand that idea that EHPADs are affected by a wave of bed closures due to personal problem. “Litter closures are heard in a recurring way,” she said in the world, Monday, November 8, during a visit to Volvic’s EHPAD. “Me, I can assure you that this is not the case, even if there are sometimes reorganizations due to the absence of a staff member. For example, in the Puy-de-Dôme, there is only 10% of the actual tension establishments. “
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