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Geographical study of the long-term care in metropolitan France

Abstract

This thesis is based upon the French republican principles of Freedom, Equality which proceeds the territorial Equity of and Fraternity, fromwhich ensues Solidarity. Their application is studied on a matter of public interest: the professional care of the elderly dependence of inmainland France. The geographical approach implemented is innovative on this object. It analyzes the professional offer in a transverse way, thanks to quantitative and qualitative methods, and on several territorial scales.This paper seeks to study the territorialisation of elderly care, that is to say its apprehension from spatial realities and relative processes. Mythesis is composed of three themed chapters. The first section of this paper will examine, the major terms of the study, such as ageing ordependence, in addition national key figures, are highlighted by historical realities and actors' testimonies, in national and local perspectives.An analysis of the current organization of the offer aimed at dependent elderly persons is realized, including at home caregiver and at homesocial workers, at home nursing services and private nurses, nursing homes, as well as the coordinating structures.The second part of this study focuses on the territorial anchoring of the professional offer. Although, the offers studied are mainly locals, asevidenced by their comparison with other types of organizations, their presence in departments (The term department in this case refers toFrench administrative divisions) is not however homogeneous. Indeed private nurses are more present for instance in the departments of theFrench Mediterranean coast, whereas at home caregivers and at home social workers intervene more in northern departments of France.Between complementarities and substitutions, this research investigates the economic, social and political stakes ensuing from adifferentiated territorial distribution.In the last part of this paper, two revealing themes are explored in-depth. Firstly the non take-of an important allowance to pay forprofessional care, attributed by the departmental Councils, at the request of the dependent elderly person is studied. Then, the determinants ofthe migrations of people during their entering to nursing homes are analyzed. The difficulty is due to the fact that the same behaviours, nontake-up of allowances or migrations, can reflect at the same time the choices of the people, and a failure of public authorities to propose asuitable offer available throughout the territory. An analysis of the individual determinants, based on detailed databases and on testimonies oflocal actors allows to distinguish the limit between personal freedom and responsibility of public authorities.This study produces diagnoses by territories, it is a potential decision-making tool, for D.R.E.E.S (which stands for French NationalDepartment for Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics, Ministry of Health) and four departmental Councils partners

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