Traducción de «autonomía de los ancianos » (Español → Inglés) :

They aim to encourage the dissemination of contrats solidaires et responsables and cover for the entire population, especially by accepting a significant proportion of young or elderly people, two categories encountering the greatest difficulties in obtaining (supplementary) sickness insurance on account of their low resources (the young) or the potential cost they represent (the elderly).

welcomes the fact that, on 20 May 2010, a special parliamentary committee was set up to amend and complete the legislative framework concerning the process to decentralise and strengthen local self-government, with the specific remit of furthering measures to implement the constitutional principles of local self-government and the decentralisation of public services, in strict compliance with the European Charter of Local Self-Government; supports this committee's aim of conducting a comprehensive assessment of the legal framework covering all aspects of activity by local and regional authorities, which will enable decentralisation to b ...[+++]e fully implemented, including at sectoral level, in the fields of education, health, social protection, the environment, law and order, etc.; expresses the hope that the reform measures to strengthen local self-government will be implemented in a timely fashion, so that all the implementation mechanisms can be operational by the time of the local general elections in the summer of 2011;

The improved health profile of today’s younger generations holds out the hope that the very elderly of the future will remain self-sufficient for longer, and that they will wish to remain in their own homes. High intensity care will be increasingly concentrated towards the end-of-life period. Nevertheless, there will also be more people than today who will need such high intensity care as a result of the loss of their independence.

With life expectancy increasing all the time, our societies are witnessing the presence of an ever-rising number of very elderly persons (80+): +17.1% between 2005 and 2010, +57.1% between 2010 and 2030. On that timescale, very elderly people would number nearly 34.7 million, compared with approximately 18.8 million today.

In that connection, it should be borne in mind that, by excluding the application of Article 283 EC which gives the Council the authority to lay down the provisions of the Staff Regulations of Officials and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Communities, the Statute of the EIB confers on it functional autonomy as regards the arrangements applying to its staff, which it exercises in opting for a contractual system rather than a system governed by public service regulations, so that the provisions of the Staff Regulations cannot be applied as such to employment relationships between the EIB and its staff.

This group covers the services of general and specialist hospitals, the services of medical centres, maternity centres, nursing homes and convalescence homes which chiefly provide in-patient health care, the services of institutions serving old people in which medical monitoring is an essential component and the services of rehabilitation centres providing in-patient health care and rehabilitative therapy where the objective is to treat the patient rather than to provide long-term support.