Expensive: all public nursing homes will likely be in deficit in 2024

The Cher departmental council voted on a motion a month ago and organized this Friday the foundations of old age to propose solutions. The public nursing homes of Cher, like everywhere in France, are on the brink of collapse. In all likelihood, the 37 public establishments in Cher will be in deficit at the end of the year, this was nine out of ten last year.

The state paid an exceptional envelope of 600,000 euros last year; it will undoubtedly be a little more this year; And the departmental council should further increase the price of stay from 2 to 2.5% depending on the establishments in 2025. For Bénédicte de Choulot, these successive increases since 2022 risk prohibiting access to nursing homes for certain families excluded from social assistance. The vice-president of the department asks a review of the financing of old age in France : ” The risk for families is that we will be forced to increase the daily price more and more. This will not be bearable for some residents. We are not asking for money as such. It is a reform of the financing method. What we are asking is to project ourselves into the future of old age. It is to know which structures will be important, which associations will be able to intervene in the journey of the elderly person from home to the nursing home, via intermediate structures and that from there, we put in place a financing method that is sustainable.”

Most nursing homes will need major renovation work. How to finance them? The Cher department hopes that the assembly of departments, next week, will relay the concerns of elected officials: ” The more departments will move, take actions in this direction and the more we will be heard at government level.continues Bénédicte de Choulot. Next week, at the assembly of the departments of France, we will take stock of the mobilizations and we will see if we can weigh in collectively.”
According to a survey commissioned by the department of expensive, 72% of French people believe that care for the elderly is insufficient.(Survey from October 10 to 14, 2024, with a representative sample of 1,000 people, carried out by the Quorum Institute)