In Haute-Garonne, hospitalization at home is « an end-of-life project, no death »-Liberation

« It’s 25 ° C outside, aren’t you hot? » The nurse gently raises the long sleeves of the old man bed in a semi-penumber, indifferent to the first scents of the Occitan spring. For some time, Alfred, 95, has not left the medical bed installed in his room by the association Health Relais Home, on the ground floor of the large building that his brother and built on the rare leisure activities that the farm left them. « I am chilly », Ahane the peasant, frozen features.

In an accomplished physiognomist, Myriam Soula pushes her questioning. « How do you feel? » Alfred breathes as we make the weapons: « I’m going badly. I do nightmares.  » Ridden by concern, his wife Bruna, 90, specifies: « When he woke up, he believed that the house was collapsed. He is no longer too much for him. The diarrhea tires him. «  In a voice pushed into the treble by effort, her husband takes it back, as if to mark his ultimate will: « Sleeping is good. I prefer to be at home. I have the habits of everything. « 

Operated with colon cancer in 2022, Alfred had almost never returned to his Léguevin lands. « When he left the clinic after four weeks, they gave him a fortnight to live, Still trembling his partner. A fart-sec nurse wanted to send it to the rehabilitation center. She said that I wouldn’t get out of hospitalization at home. ” Camped on