Bracieux (France) (AFP)
Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that his goal was to "present at the beginning of next year" a bill on old age and autonomy, during a visit to an Ehpad in Loir-et-Cher.
Eagerly awaited by professionals, this law will be, he promised, "an extraordinarily ambitious global response" to the questions of old age.
He recalled the launch of a vast consultation in the coming weeks nicknamed the "Laroque of autonomy".
This summer, he said he hoped to complete this law by the end of the year, which could be one of the last major reforms of the five-year term.
Accompanied by the Minister Delegate for Autonomy Brigitte Bourguignon, he stressed that this law would be "very concrete", would make it possible to "upgrade jobs that are not sufficiently valued" but also to find a better organization between the establishments and the hospitalization at home, with caregivers or nursing aides.
"We must have a response that goes from prevention to medical, decompartmentalization", he said, also pleading for the use of home automation.
"You have to know how we give back a place to our elders in order to live happily in society, as much as possible with their families, as long as they wish and as the families wish, or as a couple, or at home, and when this happens. 'is necessary, either intermittently or subsequently in a sustainable manner, in suitable establishments ".
First stone of the future reform, the creation of a fifth branch of Social Security for autonomy and old age must be recorded in the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS) for 2021, presented by the government end of September.
Already promised - then abandoned - by Nicolas Sarkozy, again promised by Emmanuel Macron in June 2018, the dependency reform is hampered by its cost.
Responsible for finding "a billion euros from 2021 and 3 to 5 billion by 2024", the inspector of finance Laurent Vachey proposed to the government last week about fifteen avenues, including the reduction of certain allocations and the planing of several social and fiscal niches.
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