[Freedom in the protected sector and COVID-19]

It is difficult on a daily basis to reconcile security and freedom, particularly the freedom to come and go of residents in accommodation facilities for dependent elderly people, and more specifically in the protected sector. With the COVID-19 epidemic, everyone experienced the effects of the lack of freedom. This echoed what residents may experience on a daily basis in institutions, where their freedom is often abused. If the effects of confinement are beginning to be studied in the general population, what about the repercussions on residents already weakened by the disease? How did they experience it? The deprivation of freedom acts on our emotions, on our psyche, in different ways. We will certainly have to learn from this period, notably on the importance of feeling free even in an institution.