Old people\'s home

A old people's home is a collective residence intended for the Elderly. This term for a long time replaces the term Hospice which has from now on a pejorative connotation.

Definitions

The term old people's home itself is replaced by other synonyms because it is true that if the majority of the elderly are pensioners, they are seldom lodged in old people's home as of their departure with the retirement.

Belgium

• Convalescent home (MRPA)
• Convalescent home and care (MRS)
• Residence service (RS)
• Health care centres of day (CSJ)
• Centers of short stay (CS)

France

• Old people's home
• Hearth-housing

Establishment offering to the valid and autonomous elderly a structurally separate building with collective services (restoration, laundry, animations…)

• Résidences with services
• Établissement of lodging for elderly dependant (EHPAD)
• rural Maison on reception for elderly (MARPA)

These structures relates to the communes of less: 2000 inhabitants. They are small units of life of less than twenty-five places. The boarders have a personal access towards outside and an direct access towards the collective rooms.

Modes of lodging

Lodging varies between an individual part and the small apartment. The ancillary services vary, them also, according to the standing (of the restaurant to the canteen) and of the type of lodged people (of the quasi-hospital environment for customers with physical or mental disability “heavy” with the attending physician passing according to the needs). One can also categorize the establishments according to their way of financing (public or private).

Taking into account the high cost of this mode of lodging and scarcity of the places available vis-a-vis an increasing demand, the maintenance in residence with installation of a personalized help is an alternative solution.

Works of fiction having for framework an old people's home

• Old men of the old woman , 1960, film carried out by Gilles Grangier
• Fritters of green tomatos , 1991, film carried out by Jon Avnet, according to the novel éponyme
• Mars Attacks , 1996, film carried out by Tim Burton (where the attack of an old people's home leads the Martian invasion to its loss)

See too

• List of the types of lodging
• EHPAD
• Old people's home

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