We believed that this great construction site had been abandoned on the altar of the crisis. In 2018, Emmanuel Macron had promised a law on the dependency of the elderly, which was to be voted ” before the end of the year ” next. But between the movement of “yellow vests”, the sling against the pension reform, and the Covid-19 epidemic, which suspended the train of reforms, this text has never managed to find its place in the agenda of the executive.
Less than a year from the presidential election, the tide seems to be turning. “The text on addiction is in our sights”, announced the Prime Minister, Jean Caxtex, on May 10, in The Parisian. And now soon on the table. According to our information, a meeting on the subject is scheduled for Thursday, May 20 in Matignon, in the presence of the head of government and the ministers concerned, in order to advance this file, which has been postponed many times.
Appointed to the government in the summer of 2020 to carry this reform, the Minister for Autonomy, Brigitte Bourguignon, hopes that it will be included on the agenda of the National Assembly. “In September, at the latest”. In his eyes, it is a “Crisis exit project”, whose field has become over time much wider than the sole subject of dependence and old age.
Of course, the flagship measure remains the desire to develop home care, by reducing the proportion of elderly people in nursing homes. But Matignon insists on the aspect “Intergenerational” of text. An orientation that should appear in the name of the law, to the detriment of that of ” addiction “, considered too reductive, according to government sources. “We could not give the impression of defending the interests of seniors once again, whereas in the end of the crisis, if there is money to be spent, it should rather be for young people”, decrypts an adviser to the executive.
A cost estimated at 10 billion euros
Brigitte Bourguignon defends this approach “Intergenerational”. “It is a bill which anticipates the demographic transition, which speaks to everyone: beyond the elderly directly concerned, and those in the process of being so, home help is a sector providing jobs for thousands of young people, and many working people take care of their parents ”, she argued, in front of journalists, on May 6.
During the meeting Thursday, May 20 in Matignon around the Prime Minister, it should therefore be a question of the autonomy of the elderly, but also of the employment of young people, civic service, or the renovation of nursing homes … This interministerial scope explains that the minister in charge of housing, Emmanuelle Wargon, the secretary of state in charge of youth, Sarah El Haïry or the one in charge of disabled people, Sophie Cluzel, be announced.
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