With one exception, the department has only non-profit public or private retirement homes, all eligible for social assistance. A political legacy, now erected in style.
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“It’s old, but it’s clean and we have everything you need. Retirement homes where Astronomical prizes are paying, it’s better than here”. Lucette Camscass, short white hair, discreet lipstick, celebrate mid-February its 99 years in the Ehpad de Montfort-en-Chalosse, small municipality of the Landes, where she was born. After hearing the village bistro, she ended up entering the hundred and walking retirement home, where she found old schoolmates. “It’s a little the family,” she says.
Assisi for his dinner in the dining room with orange walls, she boasts the “dedicated staff” and the efforts of the cook: “For Christmas, we had foie gras four times, but of the truth, no block . “She appreciates that the establishment is in the heart of the village,” when I go to the garden, the old customers [of his bar] who go by car make a “tuuut” “. In unison with many Gascons, she wishes to salute the memory of “Henri Emmanuelli, an extraordinary man, released from the people, who wanted everything to be public.” Before adding: “Anyway, I could not have gone in the private, it was too expensive.”
Rich or poor, “The same conditions”
The former president of the National Assembly, died in 2017, has indeed been refused to authorize lucrative private EHPADs in the Landes department, which he presided over for more than three decades. A heritage from now on a model by part of the political class, since the ORPEA scandal has highlighted the serious failures of some private for-profit EHPADs.
With the exception of a small establishment of 25 places, the Landes therefore count today only non-profit public or private retirement homes, all eligible for social assistance. Result ? “Whether you are rich or poor, you get older in the same conditions,” says Boris Vallaud, MP (Socialist Party, PS) of the Landes. They are political choices. The Landes are a socialist department, which puts the social question at the heart of his practices. “
In a hundred steps, in a very rural territory where small retreats are legion, 30% of residents benefit from social assistance. “Here, the price amounts to 1,878 euros per month for accommodation, so if a resident receives 1,000 euros of retirement, it is missing 878 euros. We will look at what part can be paid by the children, and the department will pay the rest, explains the young director of EHPAD, Mathieu Henry. In return, the departmental council has a right of look at our rates and ensures that they do not blaze. “The thirties, who did during Its training of internships in a private lucrative establishment, will not go to the future “not work elsewhere than in the public”. “What really makes the difference is the governance of the institutions, the autonomy that is left me,” he says. My board of directors is composed only of local elected officials, who never ask me how much I ordered urinary protections, do not look for economic profitability, but inquires from the service rendered to the population. ”
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