According to forecasts, by 2050 Europe will have around 30% of elderly people in its population. If life expectancy continues to increase, the number of chronic pathologies and dependent people also increases in parallel.
Limiting the number of dependent elderly people in the years to come has therefore become one of the major challenges of the World Health Organization (WHO), which has just published the ICOPE program (Integrated Care for Older People /Soins Intégrés pour les Elderly) in order to meet this objective. It is a question of supporting aging with appropriate preventive measures to preserve or improve the autonomy and quality of life of this fragile public, with comprehensive care of the person taking into account his health, his environment and life wishes.
This ICOPE program, whose French referent is the Gérontopôle of the Toulouse University Hospital, thus offers an assessment of the physical and mental capacities of an individual covering the following six functions: mobility, memory, nutrition, psychological state, vision and hearing.
Appointment
If you are therefore over 60 and/or you are caring for someone over 60, the Juillan CCAS, the departmental center for autonomy, the territorial aging and dependency prevention team 65 and the The Departmental Office of Sports invites you on Thursday April 7 to join them at the France Services house (opposite the town hall) from 2 p.m. to present this program to you in more detail, which they call “being an actor in your health”.
It will be followed by a conference on “eating well and moving well for your health”. Healthy aging: our common wish and goal.
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