The ability of people to understand and implement preventive and barrier measures is essential for their health and for the safety of the professionals working with them. It is therefore necessary to guide the practices of professionals in order to adapt the environment and promote the learning and application of barrier measures, particularly with people with cognitive and psychological disorders, while ensuring that the quality of the social link is maintained and that people’s resources and skills are continuously mobilised.
This contribution is intended to identify points of vigilance and to propose benchmarks for professionals in adapting their practices to the effects of this pandemic. It concerns all groups of people accommodated or supported by social and health care establishments and services covered by the social action and family code (people with disabilities, elderly people, children and adolescents under child protection, people in social difficulty, people with addictions, migrants, etc.).
Haute Autorité de Santé, Covid-19. Les mesures barrières et la qualité du lien dans le secteur social et médico-social. Paris, Ministère des Solidarités et de la Santé, 2020, 25 p.
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