While French society is facing a major demographic challenge, with the aging of the population which will see the number of 85-year-olds triple between 2030 and 2050, the elderly sector is going through a real earthquake.
Not only did he not obtain during this five-year term the
“great law”
promised by Emmanuel Macron in 2018, supposed to give him the means necessary to meet the challenges.
And this even if the government has created a fifth branch of Social Security – alongside the family, sickness, old age and industrial accident branches – dedicated to autonomy.
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But, above all, the sector has emerged weakened from two years of health crisis, where it had to mobilize to protect the elderly, the first victims of Covid.
Finally, the sector came out destabilized by the scandal hitting the Orpea group, whose dysfunctions were revealed by Victor Castanet's book,
Les Fossoyeurs,
published in January.
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