“My mother is happier like this”: they keep their elderly parents at home

2023-11-10 07:09:32

At Sylvie (the first name has been changed), an executive at La Défense and mother of three children, “we are very family,” she warns. Since her eldest daughter, aged 24, moved away almost a year ago, the fifty-year-old decided, in agreement with her husband and her two other children, aged 20 and 22, to repatriate her mother, placed in a nursing home. , in the large family apartment in Levallois-Perret (Hauts-de-Seine). Gone are the daily anguish of “discovering something” in a retirement home, the errors in medications administered to her mother and “a whole bunch of dysfunctions,” Sylvie sweeps away.