Translation of "Loi sur l'aide aux logements des personnes âgées " (French → English) :

53. Calls on the Commission to promote accessible and affordable physical surroundings and the adaptation of elderly people’s homes with a view to facilitating their independence; stresses that home conversion is the best means of preventing domestic accidents which can cause serious disability, resulting in heavy costs to public services and families and making it harder to ensure active ageing in good health;

55. Highlights the challenges related to the ageing of the population and the need to provide access to adequate, decent and accessible housing for the growing number of older people in the EU; notes the growing impoverishment of the elderly in all the Member States, and, accordingly, seeks the inclusion in the new European Innovation Partnership (EIP) on active and healthy ageing, which coordinates research in this area, of affordable measures specifically designed to ensure that the elderly are allowed to stay in their ...[+++] homes as long as possible; notes, in this connection, that action to improve current housing accessibility is a relevant way of reducing social exclusion through measures to enhance their independence; calls, therefore, on the Member States to include in their national reforms a specific strand devoted to developing affordable solutions to enable older people to remain in their own homes for as long as possible, taking into account that improving conditions for access to the existing housing stock is desirable, helping people to remain in their places of residence and making it easier for them to regain a social life by boosting their personal independence;

Paula Lehtomäki, President-in-Office of the Council (FI) Mr President, we obviously have to remember that, concerning the need for a separate law on the protection of the elderly, it should be decided upon nationally in the Member States.

Naturally, society also needs to meet the challenges of ageing, for example by means of expanding social services or, of course, by means of urban development: for example, old people’s housing, and transport designed with children and the elderly in mind.

When discussing these different labour market transitions, the following types of benefit schemes are considered: (i) unemployment insurance and unemployment assistance; (ii) minimum income guarantee and other forms of social assistance (including housing benefits); (iii) employment-conditional benefits and other similar provisions; (iv) support for families and parents (family benefits, maternity, paternity and parental leave schemes, child-care benefits and provision, elderly care and care for disabled people); (v) early retirement; and (vi) support for sickness, invalidity and work-related injuries.

Ensures that all economic, social and cultural facilities are accessible to the older generation in keeping with its needs; contributes towards solving problems of social, old-age and health policy, and supports the provision of advice, information and care for the elderly. Protects the collective interests of consumers pursuant to § 28(1), § 28(a)(1) and § 29(1) of the KSchG.