SAAD and SSIAD: two complementary services to help elderly people stay at home

The SAAD and SSIAD are two medical-social services that help elderly people who are losing their independence. Their common goal is to enable them to remain at home for as long as possible.

• The SAAD (Service d'Aide et d'Accompagnement à Domicile) offers services to help with daily living. These include housework, washing, dressing, meal preparation and shopping. It can also provide administrative assistance and companionship.
• The SSIAD (Service de Soins Infirmiers A Domicile) provides nursing care, rehabilitation and medical monitoring. It works with elderly people who need occasional or regular care, such as dressings, injections, infusions or health monitoring.

SAAD and SSIAD issues:

• Staff shortage: The SAAD and SSIAD sector is facing a shortage of qualified staff.
• Difficult working conditions: Home helps and care assistants are often faced with difficult working conditions. With part-time working, low pay and high physical and psychological strain.
• Administrative complexity: The administrative management of SAADs and SSIADs is complex and time-consuming.
• Coordination of interventions: It is necessary to strengthen coordination between the various players in the SAAD and SSIAD to guarantee comprehensive and coherent care for the elderly.

The Aging Well Act and its implications for SAAD and SSIAD:

The Aging Well Act, adopted in 2024, aims to improve the quality of life of the elderly and make it easier for them to stay at home. It includes several measures concerning the SAAD and SSIAD:

• Creation of a departmental autonomy service: This service will be tasked with simplifying access to services for the elderly and their families, and coordinating the work of the various SAAD and SSIAD players.
• Tighter controls: The law provides for tighter controls on homecare services in order to guarantee service quality and combat abuse.
• Better training for home helps and care assistants: The law provides for better training for SAAD and SSIAD professionals, to enhance their skills and professionalize them.
• Pay rises: The law provides for pay rises for home helps and care assistants. The aim is to make these professions more attractive.

SENEF software publisher: Solutions for SAAD

SENEF offers software solutions to meet the challenges of the SAAD and improve the quality of service provided to the elderly as well as the quality of work for employees:

• Improved working conditions: Simplified management of schedules, interventions and documents. Smoother communication between staff.
• Reduce administrative complexity: dematerialize documents and simplify procedures.
• Strengthening coordination: information sharing between the various SAAD players.

SAAD is a fast-growing sector, with major challenges ahead. The "Bien vieillir" law provides promising solutions. SENEF, with its software solutions, is committed to supporting SAAD players to improve the quality of life of the elderly and enable them to remain at home for as long as possible.

Progisap and its mobile applications offer a complete, intuitive solution for structures providing homecare services. By automating certain administrative tasks, these tools enable caregivers to concentrate more on the quality of support offered to beneficiaries.

What's more, our personalized beneficiary follow-up functions enable us to tailor our services to their specific needs. The result is more efficient, more humane care.

Services d'Aide et d'Accompagnement à Domicile are a fundamental pillar of well-being for the elderly. However, to respond effectively to the growing needs of this population, it is essential to meet the challenges facing the sector.

The "Bien Vieillir" law provides a framework for improving services. And technological solutions such as those offered by SENEF are helping to enhance the efficiency and quality of services.

By combining legislative efforts and technological innovations, we can work together to guarantee a better quality of life for seniors. To enable them to age with dignity, in their own homes, surrounded by attentive, personalized care.