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To remain at home costs that costs is the vow of the majority of the aged people. On 8 500 000 people of more than 65 years, less 3% live in retirement home or in another type of specialized establishments. The big majority of the aged people lives at home.
This maintenance is at home only possible if the social, domestic environment and the state of health of the person permit it. The setting holds a major role, however a large range of convenient solutions, adapted and personalized can be proposed, that bring comfort to the aged person and relieve the setting.
The domestic help and the auxiliary of life
They do all two the daily tasks: preparation of the meals, provision and maintenance works of the inside of the house. They can come with the walks, the visits at the physician and the administrative steps. However, they don't have the same statute. The domestic help intervenes to the domicile of the aged person if this one doesn't have any sufficient means. The financing of his benefit is assured in part by the social help or the complementary retirement case. The domestic help is part of associations or social services in general. The auxiliary of life, it, intervenes to the demand without taking into account social, medical or financial considerations. She/it is paid directly by the aged person. The associations proposing such services are numerous. To know the coordinates of it, address yourselves at the office of social help of your town hall.
Iit looks after the physical and moral comfort of the aged person, his presence allows the members of the family or the setting to leave, to take a rest or to be unloaded of material tasks. his intervention is a service to the card, available for all type of hourly gap and can spread on the whole wished length: day, half-day, night, week, weekend... his use doesn't give right to direct helps on behalf of the social organisms, nor of the local collectivities safe to rare exceptions like takes in charge by some cases of retirement. As far as possible, it is necessary to go to an association, that offers a guarantee of seriousness on the brought help and simplify the system of remuneration.
According to their complexity, they are assured is by male nurses, either by nursing helps that intervene following the physician's prescription. The toilet, the care and all other shape of their interventions are at home the pivot of help. Their expertises also permit to appreciate the evolution of the medical problems, to signal them to the physician and to play a role efficient of prevention. This care can be completed by the intervention of a physical therapist or a speech therapist. Their benefits are in charge of the cover illness of the person concerned. For all information, address yourselves by your physician.
The other services
Numerous townships propose the portage of meal at home. This service allows people to eat in a balanced way without having to prepare the meals and to make the shoppings. You can address the social worker of the town hall of the domicile of the aged person.
The telemonitoring is implanted well today. This remote alarm permits by the simple pressure of a button of a device that can carry itself around the neck, to signal to a power station of monitoring a failing, an accident or all other demand of emergency help.
5 000 administrative organisms of service of help or care exist at home on the whole territory. To remain at home is possible.
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