title: [From the concept of mistreatment to that of positive treatment, a path full of pitfalls].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: De l'Association française pour la bientraitance des aînés et/ou handicapés (Afbah) et de l'Association gérontologique de L'Essonne. afbah@afbah.org
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Duportet
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged / Q000523:psychology*; D001294:Attitude to Health; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008318:Malpractice