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Résidents et personnel en établissement d'hébergement pour personnes agées dépendantes (EHPAD) : création ou recréation de liens spécifiques en milieu rural

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This thesis studies the specific relationship that develops between the staff, the residents and their family and friends in retirement homes for dependents elderly in a rural environment.The aim is to analyse the creation process by the actors to go from an acquaintanceship network to an interdependence network and how each adapts, reorganise, more or less, among facilities where the legislator codified strongly the relational framework.The arrival to a retirement home marks, in all cases, a strong biographical break. For a little of people, it means having to accept abandoning a significant part of their past life. It forces the residents to (re)build themselves a new identity, a new status as an elderly person, dependant and living in a facility which, often, was already part of the same the relationship network.This study uses methods specific to ethnography to bring forth results of a monographic type. It relies, especially, on the collection of semi-directed interviews to apprehend the expression of the different actors relative to the way they perceive this atypical situation. The observation period (at the entrance, after six months and after 1 year of presence for the residents) allow the repositioning of the collected stories in the different times and spaces of the facility and the example village.The study aims to offer a new take on the different forms of memberships in rural areas and thus, of the creation process used to try to build (or rebuild) and maintain sufficiently satisfying social relations for each.