those who help a dependent relative will more easily become carers or domestic helpers

On the one hand, we lack caregivers and home assistants and, on the other hand, we have millions of French people who help an dependent loved one and who therefore develop skills. A newly adopted bill aims to create bridges between the two worlds.

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It’s about recognizing that when you care for a loved one who is addicted or at the end of life, in everyday life, you learn to do many things. It can be the toilet, the transfer of the armchair to the bed, the arrangement of the residence, the coordination of the work of the professionals who intervene with the person accompanied, the compilation of administrative procedures. It can also be doing a bandage, administering medication, or placing a catheter. Many skills that are precisely those of carers or home helps. However, initial training today doesn’t provide enough of these professionals. It will therefore be necessary to find them among the caregivers. This is what this new bill proposes when on Tuesday 13 September the National Ethics Council presents a long-awaited report on the end of life.

It is about helping these caregivers to retrain, to recognize the skills acquired in their family life. The mechanism is known, it is the validation of the acquired experience, the VAE. The bill, which is due to be reviewed by the National Assembly in the fall, must enable people who are very busy helping a loved one get certified, as specified. the specialized site Actuel RH, a professional retraining towards the old age professions. A sector where recruitment tensions are very strong.

It is estimated that eleven million French people are family carers and that this represents one in ten employees, according to France Strategies. These people to be converted to the professions of old age and dependency will be helped and financed in the preparation and constitution of their practice for the validation of the acquired experience.

Internships considered long and difficult, especially for less qualified candidates who discourage a large number of them. Beyond the situation of family caregivers, the government intends to give new life to VAE. And make it a weapon against unemployment. It has set itself the goal of reaching the 100,000 diplomas or professional titles acquired by VAE every year by 2027. We are still only 22,000.

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