250 million euros: this is the amount of funding allocated in 2024 by the ARS to establishments and services in the medico-social sector, in Doubs, “including 94 million euros for the elderly and 145 million for disabled people”.
As the population ages, the ARS supported, in 2024, two real estate projects to restructure nursing homes and the creation of two centers of activity and adapted care: living spaces to accommodate patients suffering from Alzheimer's or neurodegenerative diseases. The agency also financially supported, for more than 5.3 million euros, the projects of the nursing homes of Valdahon, Saint-Vit, Valentigney and the reinforced accommodation unit dedicated to Alzheimer's patients in Pontarlier. In 2025, two new nursing homes, in Saint-Vit and Valdahon, will provide 138 additional places for vulnerable elderly people, indicates the regional health agency.
Support for nursing homes in difficulty
The latter also supported two nursing homes in difficulty as part of the “departmental commission for nursing homes in difficulty”, in addition to the Department. In 2023, the latter supported a total of eight establishments in difficulty “because of inflation. Others who are unable to recruit and resort to temporary work, which represents an additional cost, others who have several sites which increase costs,” indicates Agnès Hochart.
Home care: “A priority”
As part of home care, “102 places for home nursing services have been created in Doubs to allow elderly people to stay at home as long as possible,” explains the territorial referent. In July, a “territorial resource center” was created in the Pontarlier area to allow “30 elderly people to age at home, for as long as possible, thanks to reinforced and better coordinated support at home by facilitating the pooling of resources “. Another territorial resource center is due to open in Greater Besançon on January 1st.
