He first Mario Draghi and monsignor Vincenzo Paglia, and in the center, they: the elderly. The most fragile. To be protected, continuing to make them feel protagonists. And the protagonists were certainly today, during the meeting at Palazzo Chigi, which saw the delivery of the “ Charter of the rights of the elderly and the duties of society ”, drawn up by the Commission established at the Ministry of health for the reform of health care and social and health care for the elderly population, a Commission led by Monsignor Paglia. Pages and pages to reiterate the importance of those who now have gray hair, unstable legs and sometimes “flicker” with memories and with the head. To give strength to those who are at the end of life. A job that Draghi defined as “extraordinary” and of “enormous social and ethical importance”. With Italy that must “guarantee the rights of the elderly, respect for the dignity of the person, in every condition with adequate social and health assistance and responsible”.
The reform proposal, explained Monsignor Paglia after the meeting which was also attended by Minister Roberto Speranza, “represents a real Copernican revolution, the overthrow of a paradigm that wants the elderly to be marginalized from the vital flow of society, an irrelevant element of existence, waste and weight for those who are not elderly. The pandemic has revealed in all its crudeness its dramatic consequences. of inland areas at risk of depopulation “.
A continuum of care is thus drawn up which, through network services in the area, embraces the 4 million elderly people over 80, those most at risk of dependence and loneliness. The reform also provides for an integration of social and health assistance into home care that will become continuous for those who need it, it is estimated at least half a million over-65s.
In the “Charter of the rights of the elderly” the effort to unify the various evaluation commissions is then carried out in order to accelerate and unify the assistance response. In addition, 1,000 day care centers are planned for the elderly with dementia or other chronic pathologies, forms of incentive for co-housing and a new role for RSAs called to play an important role in post-acute and rehabilitation, and to ensure services along the entire spectrum of the continuum. welfare.
According to Monsignor Paglia, the entire reform project will be entrusted to a draft law and a control room.
The work is divided into three distinct sections. The first, “ For the respect of the dignity of the person even in old age ” lists the rights of the elderly which, although not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution, according to the Commission are founded both in article 2 and in article 3 . The second part, ” For responsible care ”, mainly concerns the duties of doctors, health professionals and institutions in the care pathways and assistance modalities. The last chapter, ‘For an active life of relationship’, deals with the quality of life that remains. Of the rights of older people to have a life in coexistence, retaining the possibility of accessing cultural and recreational services, expressing their thoughts, increasing their culture, despite psychophysical limitations. And it underlines the duty of institutions and society to prevent those who have so much of their past behind them from feeling isolated.
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