Keeping a healthy home helps keep its inhabitants in good physical health. This is why it is very important to maintain and purify your home by destroying everything that can be harmful and constitute a health hazard. These are precautions that should already be taken in normal times but which take

As you age, and in order to be able to continue to reside in your home, it is very often necessary to adapt your accommodation. This may involve installing equipment that facilitates its accessibility, movement within its home, or that secures the use of certain rooms in the house such as the bathro

Making the decision to send your parent to nursing home is not an easy choice for children. But it is most often imposed when the senior no longer has the ability to take care of himself at home and the children are worried about the health of their parent. To prevent this decision from being sudden

Although the vast majority of elderly people want above all to age in their own home, the loss of autonomy most often leads to their placement in an accommodation establishment for dependent elderly people (Ehpad). Many seniors, however, are reluctant to enter this type of nursing home. So what are

Homes-housing, now called autonomous residences, designate a set of dwellings which accommodate elderly people over the age of 60, alone or in couples, most often completely autonomous, who, for various reasons, no longer wish live in their home. This type of social accommodation, which meets a need

Le Cantou is the acronym used to refer to the Centre for natural activities drawn from useful occupations. It designates small units originally intended to care for dependent elderly people who show symptoms of dementia, and more today those suffering from Alzheimers disease. Created in France at th

Long-term care units (USLD) designate structures for very dependent elderly people who require daily medical care. These units offer more advanced medical services than those that may be present in an accommodation establishment for dependent elderly people (Ehpad). This is why USLDs are most often

Who has never found themselves in the situation of having to call a professional to carry out emergency repairs or small jobs at home? A situation that is not uncommon unless you are a very good handyman and have good skills in many areas such as locksmithing, plumbing, electricity, etc. In this ca

Residences for the elderly are aimed at people over the age of 60 who are still independent and who, for various reasons, no longer wish or no longer want to live at home. These non-medicalized residences, made up of individual and private apartments for single people or couples, of which seniors ca

Lets talk about intergenerational shared accommodation, and more specifically, shared accommodation made up of an elderly person and a student. This system is now increasingly used in France and in particular in large cities, where the price of rents and the shortage of housing are raging. However,

Anyone who has a relative in an Ehpad has necessarily already met a facilitator there (they are mostly women). Perhaps you found yourself visiting while your loved one was taking part in an activity? A program is generally established on a weekly basis and available to residents families. This anima

The accommodation establishment for dependent elderly people (Ehpad) is a medical structure that welcomes dependent elderly people. The Ehpad can be public, associative or private. In any case, the establishment must have obtained prefectural approval and have been the subject of the signing of an a

Most often, the older you get, the greater the risk of having a health problem. Some pathologies even require hospitalization. In this case, the return home of an elderly person can be complicated and require specific care for them to regain full autonomy in their acts of daily living. Several struc

A Marpa designates a rural home for the elderly. These are residences for seniors wishing to maintain their autonomy, small in size, whose objective is above all social and the guarantee of the well-being of the residents. Nearly 5,000 elderly people live in a Marpa today in France. What type of sen

An occupational therapist is a health professional holding a state diploma at bac + 3 level whose mission is to analyze the needs and wishes of people with a loss of autonomy or with a disability. The occupational therapists function is to offer these people, including seniors in particular, solutio

Hosting your elderly parent at home is reassuring in the sense that you dont know it alone and where you know it is safe. This situation also has financial advantages in some cases. However, it is a decision that must be carefully considered because family or couple life can be seriously disrupted.

One of the main particularities of medicalized retirement homes, compared to conventional retirement homes, is that these establishments mainly accommodate dependent elderly people who need help with daily activities and whose state of health requires more or less heavy specific care. Accommodation

Grouped housing proves to be an ideal solution for seniors who wish to continue to live in independent accommodation and not to integrate an establishment specializing in the reception of the elderly. Regrouped housing is aimed at all seniors, with or without a loss of autonomy, wishing not to be is

When people get older, they plan to leave their homes to go to an establishment that takes care of the daily gestures of life that they no longer want or can assume. When they inquire, some hear about retirement homes and others from EHPAD . They are not sure what differences between the two exist o

The profession of retirement home animator serves to organize, develop and develop seniors living in these structures. The animator of a retirement home is very important because he helps to maintain the socialization and autonomy of the elderly through activities that facilitate: Adaptation Commun