2023-11-23 05:30:35
The Prime Minister said she wanted to tackle the issue of aging for good. Élisabeth Borne hopes that a text of programming law on old age “can be presented by the summer, for examination and adoption in the second half of 2024”. “Autonomy and old age are central issues for the future of our society. This programming law will allow us to respond to them together,” she declared in the chamber, during the question session with the government.
She specified that she had asked the Minister of Solidarity Aurore Bergé “to initiate” on this subject “consultations with parliamentarians from all groups, with departmental councils and with professionals in the sector” to “together provide ourselves with a shared vision of needs, funding and responsibilities”. “We will move forward in the constructive and transpartisan spirit that has prevailed until now on this subject,” added the head of government.
“Faced with the demographic challenge before us, we must go even further” than the majority’s bill in favor of “aging well” currently being examined in the Assembly, continued Élisabeth Borne. “We need to answer four big questions: What are our needs? How to finance them? How can we have the necessary skills and personnel? How can we improve governance on this major subject? »
Examination of a proposed law on aging well
Promised by Emmanuel Macron at the start of his first five-year term, and demanded by professionals in the sector, this programming law was unanimously requested by the Assembly in April. Friday, presenting a government strategy to address the aging of the population, Aurore Bergé announced a future (multi-year) programming law on old age. On Monday, she pleaded on the social network X for “a text co-written with all political groups”.
“Yes, we will make a programming law for the Great Age!
Yes, we must change the method: a text co-written with all the political groups, joint hearings, joint trips.
Let’s create consensus on this major subject.” #BienVieillir pic.twitter.com/KCGXRhACC0
— Aurore Bergé (@auroreberge) November 20, 2023
While waiting for this legal text, deputies resumed on Monday the examination of a proposed law on aging well, with the adoption of new articles on home help and nursing homes, despite strong criticism from oppositions – and even in the presidential camp – against a lack of ambition in the face of the challenge of aging.
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