The Minister of Solidarity Aurore Bergé, who unveils the government’s strategy on ‘aging well’ on Friday morning, promised that a programming law on old age would see the light of day, a project long demanded by professionals in the sector and in parliamentarians.
I heard the request from parliamentarians, they are right, we need a programming law on old age. I am committed to ensuring that it sees the light of day, declared Aurore Berg in an interview published Friday in La Croix.
The future law will set a framework, objectives to be achieved by 2030 and financing modalities, it will provide a trajectory to meet the demographic challenge of the aging of the French population, said the minister.
The old age law, promised by Emmanuel Macron at the start of his first five-year term, was postponed many times before finally being abandoned. It was supposed to give more resources to the sector, upgrade professions that are struggling to recruit and prepare France to face the increase in the number of elderly people losing their autonomy.
Aurore Berg is due to unveil the government’s interministerial strategy on Friday morning age well.
This will bring coherence to the different policies that are being implemented in order to simplify the lives of our citizens, the minister explained.
This involves the development of their housing thanks to MaPrimeAdapt’, which will be accessible from 2024 to those over 70, through increased accessibility of stations but also of sports venues, or even through access to culture, she said. complete.
This strategy is presented a few days before the examination by parliamentarians of the presidential majority’s bill on aging well: it is examined on Monday in the National Assembly, after having been postponed sine die in July.
The bill, the first reading of which was interrupted in April by the parliamentary recess, notably creates a system allowing better reporting of cases of mistreatment, or even a professional card for home helpers, supposed to facilitate their daily work.