The government announced, on Saturday April 18, the establishment in September of a national autonomy conference, two months after the indefinite postponement of an old age plan which had been long awaited by the sector as the demographic wall approached.
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“The priority is to institutionalize all initiatives through mobilization and the establishment of the National Conference on Autonomy,” said the Minister Delegate in charge of autonomy and disabled people, Camille Galliard-Minier, guest Saturday morning on Francetvinfo.fr. This conference “will give us a clear course for the coming years to act on all areas of aging: prevention, the place of our nursing homes tomorrow, the home, shared housing, the role of care professions and above all support also for caregivers,” explained the minister.
For decades, players in the sector have been calling for a “old age” multi-year programming law – like what is done in particular for the armed forces – to respond to the challenges of the aging population. But this law has become a harlesian of the Macron presidency. Promised at the start of the first five-year term, it did not see the light of day, encountering financial issues in particular.
A report deemed “worrying” by the rights defender
Failing this, a “old age” plan was to be presented on February 12 to “define” the responses to be provided to people losing their autonomy and to propose several financing scenarios. But this plan was postponed indefinitely with the announcement of the departure of Charlotte Parmentier-Lecocq, responsible for the file in the government.
This postponement was deplored by a large number of professionals in the sector and considered “worrying” by the rights defender in a context of lack of attractiveness of care professions and an aging population.
According to demographic and epidemiological projections, the number of elderly people losing their autonomy is expected to reach nearly four million in 2050, compared to just over two million in 2015. And according to the Department of Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics (Drees), between 150,000 and 200,000 additional jobs will be needed to “provide basic care” to elderly people losing their autonomy in 2050.
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Originally published at Almouwatin.com
