[From the concept of mistreatment to that of positive treatment, a path full of pitfalls].
Mistreatment is a recent, "concrete" concept. Positive treatment is an even more recent, "vague" concept. While one is not the opposite of the other, it is impossible to study one without the other. Between passive tolerance and blind repression, there is room for reasoned, humble and comprehensive analysis which does not lose sight of the desire to care for others.
Duportet
Bernard
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De l'Association française pour la bientraitance des aînés et/ou handicapés (Afbah) et de l'Association gérontologique de L'Essonne. afbah@afbah.org
D000368:Aged / Q000523:psychology*; D001294:Attitude to Health; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008318:Malpractice