The aging of the population represents a real challenge for society: by 2030 the number of 75-84 year olds will increase by nearly 50%. In terms of housing, health, culture or transport, how can their specific needs be met, what policies should be implemented?
And who to represent them within the bodies so that seniors participate in decision-making that primarily concerns them?
Indeed, unlike people with disabilities, whose voice is brought to the government by the National Advisory Council for People with Disabilities, no body is consulted about public policies that concern the elderly.
Geraldine Mayr receives Veronique Fournier who, with Nicolas Foureur, Éric Favereau and Francis Carrier, confused the Self-proclaimed National Council on Old Age (Cnav) in 2021, today with more than 700 members (including the writer Annie Ernaux, who has just received the Nobel Prize for Literature, but also Laure Adler and Bernard Kouchner). She tells us about this paradoxical situation in which the elderly find themselves, who struggle to make themselves heard even though they express concrete proposals for French society to adapt to the growing aging of its population.