Report to Mr Benoist APPARU
French Secretary of State for Housing and Urban Planning
By Muriel BOULMIER
General Director of CILIOPEE Group
President of the Working Group “Demographic Evolutions and Ageing”
from CECODHAS (European Federation of Social Housing)
2nd June 2010
The previous report on “Adaptation of Housing to the Challenge of Demographic Change: A Field for Future Work” put in perspective the different issues which connect population ageing in France and Europe and housing policies. It also presented innovative and reproducible experiences of affordable housing adapted to old age. After the report was handed over …
Societal transformations due to the increase in human lifespan : the next frontier Retirement: an aspiration, or a cause for concern? Once synonymous with « defeat », then associated with old age, then with a fine period of guaranteed income, the equivocal term of retirement now evokes fear of status and conditions change. Increase in life expectancy …
Proposal 1 : Developing, especially in rural areas, active, prevention oriented, flexible and open networks of alert. The first difficulty field workers are confronted with is how to detect elderly isolated and vulnerable persons, whose home is not adapted, notably in rural areas where elderly people are less familiar with social services. Mobilizing informal networks …
Crédit John Spooner
