Liberté d'aller et venir en EHPAD : sommes-nous des hors la loi ?

Freedom to come and go is a very old human right in France. Compliance in psychogeriatric units is not easier to enforce in a nursing home hosting vulnerable patients, especially in secured accommodation units. Indeed many EHPAD or USLD actually possesses UHR or closed units. They have for peculiarity to have a door closed, limiting the possibility that the patients have to leave the establishment. A consensus conference had expressed an opinion about these units in 2004, but to date, the effectiveness of the rights and recognition of effective freedom for residents is a problem, that of a supposedly security logic. The prevalence of the precautionary principle on access to a right to a risk renders the patients and the caregivers prisoners of a dynamic confinement. It is legitimate to question the issue of allowing the passage of the general inspector of all places of deprivation of liberty in these structures.