Government plan to help seniors adapt their housing

The plan, which “Le Monde” obtained, would adapt 70,000 homes per year for 400 million euros.

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Non-slip floor, staircase, bright path, Italian shower: As many amenities that avoid falling at home or entering home for lack of accommodation for its deficiencies: the government wants Create “Financial Assistance”, announced Brigitte Bourguignon, Monday, February 21, to allow seniors to live as long as possible at home. However, the Minister responsible for the Autonomous Officer has not unveiled the schedule or the details of the future aid, called MaprimAdapt ‘, whereas it presented, at the Chu de Toulouse, a plan aimed at “decreasing by 20%, By 2024, the deadly falls of the elderly “: 10,000 seniors die every year of a bad fall.

Is it to let the primeur of the announcement at the probable future candidate Emmanuel Macron? One thing is certain: the project is the arbitration of the head of state and the Prime Minister. And as Jean Castex recalled, on September 23, 2021 in Autun (Saône-et-Loire), “We can not do that anyway”.

The executive is scald by the brutal stop he gave to his “bathtubs” in 2021. Minister of Housing, Julien Denormandie had promised, in April 2019, a help with the adaptation of 200 000 bathrooms, financed by ACCESS, organization that collects the 1% housing from companies, which had to devote a billion euros. The announcement of the plan stop fell in February 2021 while 100,000 demand files had been filed. In the end, 72,000 seniors will have benefited for some € 350 million over two years.

680,000 homes in ten years

“How to understand a decision also counterproductive for a cause that the Ministry of Housing had posted with as much pride two years before?”, Luc Brush asked in a report given in May 2021 to the government, entitled “We toeget together “. The President of France Silver ECO, Association of Support for the Economic Filière Longevity, actively militates, in its report, for a new help that it is the first to baptize #MrimApAdapt to echo to Licheénov ‘, a devoted help to thermal insulation. “It is not forbidden to draw inspiration from what works”, “says Brush, with reference to the success of this premium reformed in October 2020. He promotes a premium for help to age at home” massive ” .

Based on the Brush report, Jean Castex judge, on September 23rd in Autun, which must be carried out “the immense adaptation site of the housing” and for that “to leave the course of the fighter” current to benefit financial support. He asks M me Bourguignon, Emmanuelle Wargon, Minister responsible for housing, and Sophie Cluzel, Secretary of State for the disabled, to submit proposals.

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