Marine, deprived of her 101-year-old grandmother, calls for more humanity for the elders

Marine would have liked to spend more time with Andrée, her great-grandmother who will celebrate her 101st birthday on December 18. The retiree lives in an Ehpad in Condrieu. Visits are restricted due to a health crisis. Marine calls for more humanity for the elders.

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Marine would like to be able to hug her great-grandmother, Andrée, for her 101st birthday. But she is well aware that, this year, the health crisis deprives them both of the slightest gesture of affection. For the young woman, who lives in Loire-sur-Rhône a few kilometers from the nursing home which has been welcoming her grandmother for ten years, the situation has become unbearable. She contacted us to testify and let us know of her dismay and anger.

Reduced visits to the skin of grief

She does not hide her anger:“Today, despite all his fights, he is only allowed a visit from one of his relatives once a week, for only 30 minutes …”.

For Marine, her great-grandmother is a true fighter, who has survived many hardships during her long existence. Her last fight, she won last November, against the disease: “My great grandmother is a force of nature and she defeated the Covid!” she explains with pride. After a week of uncertainty, relatives of the centenary learned that she had contracted the virus … “We went without seeing her so that she wouldn’t get sick and in the end she caught the virus,” Marine is indignant, who also questions the merits of these containment measures.

And when it comes to leaving the old lady, the young woman with a strong character, does not accept the awkwardness and sometimes the harshness, according to her, of the staff of the nursing home. Speedy farewells … suffering for both.

“It’s not human !”

Marine admits, however: “the staff do what they can, they are overwhelmed, tired after months of health crisis, but we need to see her and she needs to see us, to touch us, to hear us … especially that since she was sick with the Covid, she can hear less well. ” According to the young woman, the centenary had already been affected by the first confinement and isolation in her room. “She’s holding on because she hears our voices,” she explains.

With his relatives, for almost two long months, contacts were limited to video calls, thanks to the staff. Marine would like to make the most of the presence of her great-grandmother. Marine, who fears the famous “slip syndrome” for Andrée, asks “at least one visit a day. She herself tells us that she feels lonely, and that she will let herself go.”

We no longer have the right to love and support our loved ones, it is unacceptable !!

If the young woman understands the sanitary constraints to protect the elders, she nevertheless rebels against the “lack of humanity” of these measures. “It’s not human! We ask of humanity,” Marine insists, thinking of the situation of all these elderly people in retirement homes. Nothing can replace contact with loved ones: “they are alone in nursing homes with people who take care of them, but it’s not the family!”

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