Solidarity condominiums, palliative care, caregivers: here are all the new arrivals for the elderly
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Final green light from the Chamber to the bill (already approved by the Senate) which governs some delegations to the Government regarding policies in favor of the elderly. The bill aims to implement some provisions of the latest budget law referring, in particular, to non self-sufficient elderly people and to achieve one of the objectives of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (support for vulnerable people, construction of community houses and the taking care of the person for the strengthening of home services and telemedicine, as well as for the strengthening of intermediate health care and its structures) which sets the target for the adoption of the enabling law in the first quarter of 2023, and in the first quarter of 2024 that for the approval of the delegated legislative decrees.
Right to home care
The provision starts from the recognition of the right of elderly people to continuity of life and care at home. The aim is to define an “individualized assistance project” (PAI), which will indicate all the health, social and assistance services necessary for the elderly person.
Family homes and supportive condominiums
Further important elements are the definition of a specific national governance of policies in favor of the elderly population, with the task of coordinating interventions; the promotion of measures in favor of active aging and social inclusion; the promotion of new forms of supportive cohabitation for the elderly and intergenerational cohabitation, also in the context of supportive family homes and condominiums, open to family members, volunteers and providers of supplementary health, social and socio-health services
From palliative care to interventions in favor of caregivers
As well as, the promotion of interventions for the prevention of frailty of elderly people; the integration of the integrated home care institutes (ADI) and the home care service (SAD); the recognition of the right of elderly people to receive palliative care at home and in hospices; the provision of interventions in favor of family caregivers.
Money transfer and personal services
Article 5 contains a delegation to the Government, to be exercised by 31 January 2024, on policies for the economic sustainability and flexibility of long-term care and assistance services for elderly people and non self-sufficient elderly people. A first area of delegation concerns the progressive strengthening of assistance services in favor of non self-sufficient elderly people: for this purpose, a universal service is provided, even on an experimental and progressive basis, for those who opt for it, graduated according to the specific assistance need and disbursable in the form of monetary transfers and personal services. Those entitled to the carer’s allowance have the right to expressly opt for the new benefit (the government is responsible for the discipline of the reversibility of the choice), which includes the monetary disbursement and personal services.
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