Scandals in nursing homes: DomusVi, another heavyweight in the sector in the crosshairs

Marie-Louise was a “joyful, smiling, sociable” woman, in the words of her son Bernard. But that was in his life before. Alone since the death of her husband in 2016, “Lili”, as her close friends call her, ended up in 2020, at the age of 82, being placed by her children in a residence for the elderly managed by the company DomusVi, the n ° 3 of the sector, in Vaujours (Seine-Saint-Denis). The health of this former saleswoman from Galeries Lafayette declining week after week, her younger brother, Bernard, decided to come out of silence, a year after the publication of the book “Les Fossoyeurs”, a shock investigation into the practices of the Orpea group, which has released the floor, republished this Wednesday in an augmented paperback version.