How many elderly people were found dead at home several days after their death in Brittany last year?
In the absence of public statistics, we are based on data from articles from the regional daily press. We discovered that in Brittany, according to these sources, seven people were discovered at home, several days, weeks, or even months, after their death.
It is a catastrophic situation. How does it be explained?
We are on the most extreme consequence of isolation which is increasing especially in the elderly. And in particular, those called in a situation of social death, that is to say people who, during their lifetime, have no contact with their family, neither with their friends, the neighborhood, nor with the associative fabric . For us, it is dramatic because it is a sign of a society where there is an extremely serious isolation.
How to end these situations?
There must be a large mobilization. You must have real visibility by creating, for example, an observatory of lonely death. There is also the possibility of working with the public authorities, for example, or with companies such as the Post or Energy distributors by conducting experiments.
-A person who has had no movement on his bank account, who has not had energy consumption, is perhaps a person who died … And then, it is the responsibility of all. When you have a neighbor and you can see that your mailbox overflows, getting hitting your door to find out if it’s okay, it’s important.
You make an observation and proposals. But you can’t get there on your own.
It takes a political will and it takes a company of the link. The possibility that everyone is responsible for the other at the scale of their neighborhood, their village. Of course, the public authorities must commit. The neighbor’s solidarity chain to the one who decides is extremely important.
To avoid these inhuman and unacceptable situations, certain signs must make us react. I invite everyone to download our information kit on our website.
