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07 June 2021 The situation for elderly people in Italy - in the age group 75 and over - is concerned about the lack of social support, the need for support, unfavorable housing conditions, difficult economic conditions: Istat notes in the report on ' The elderly and their social and health demands'.

The study shows that out of a reference population of about 6.9 million over 75, over 2.7 million individuals have severe motor difficulties, comorbidities, impaired autonomy in daily personal care activities.

Among these 1.2 million cannot count on adequate help.



There are about 100 thousand elderly people alone in Italy, poor in social and relational resources, without any help, with motor problems, with serious limitations in the care and instrumental activities of daily life, which are placed in the lowest range of income distribution, therefore , next candidates to crowd hospitals, nursing homes and rest homes. This is what emerges from the Istat study 'The elderly and their social and health demands. Report of the Commission for the reform of health and social care for the elderly population '. "Supporting them in all ways in their homes, - warn the authors of the study - also through robust social and economic support, will make it possible to respond to the actual needs of these elderly people, guaranteeing the fully enforceable right to assistance,according to the principle of social equity ".