The idea of building up a self -proclaimed national council of old age (CNAV) was born in 2021, therefore just a year ago, in a Parisian amphitheater where nearly two hundred, rather old people had gathered Or very old, wondering where the “great age” law had gone. The latter had just been forgotten again by Macron 1, after having been so many times promised, by him first, but also by his two predecessors, Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande. It had been more than fifteen years since we were waiting for it!
Las that we are passed once again out of losses and profits, we decided that evening that it was time to take our destiny in hand, to get out of the shadows and to proclaim itself useful to the cause of old age. “Nothing for old people without the old” has become our watchword, our hashtag, as we say these days. “We are asking for the creation of a National Advisory Council for Vieilles (CNCPV), so that old age policies are systematically discussed with us, or even proposed by us.”
It seems that we have been heard. A CNCPV should soon see the light of day, we are told. In 2023 at the latest. It is that we did not stay alone. Many have joined us. Several former ministers, force writers and writers, including Nobel Prize winners, directors, and not the least, journalists, medical teachers and many other big mouths!
change the look of society on old age
Without counting the thousand individuals, ordinary but old citizens, who, from all over France, have joined the movement for a year. So, should we dissolve since our main demand seems on a good way? No, of course ! First, because we must remain vigilant. Check how this instance will be composed, how it will be positioned administratively, how it will work, what power it will have.
Ensure that she will not become yet another instance, created to calm our impatience and give time to time. We want it to move, that it is moving forward. And quick. There are a thousand things to do so that the gaze of society changes on old age and its behavior towards old people. We no longer want to be considered a people of people who have become indifferentable because they are old.
We no longer want to be considered as people to whom we must assist and commiseration because they have become fragile and vulnerable. We are partly, but we don’t want to be reduced to that. We want us to stop doing only “take care” of us, we want us to “be interested”. To what we still have to say and to bring to others.
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