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Older immigrants in France: a medical and a social approach of exclusion
- Author:
- PITAUD Philippe
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 14(3), July 2004, pp.20-22.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
This article is based on four years data issued from health assessment, free of chare, intended for elderly immigrants in France and specifically in Marseille. The survey shows that elderly immigrants suffer from isolation (very few migrants have a family at their place of residence) but also a collective isolation in certain districts or homes for immigrants. In addition, there were specific pathologies resulting from difficult working conditions, non access to services for older persons, non access to social and health rights and from not being covered by social insurance. Concludes that to continue to live in their own home, older immigrants need French society to develop for them a policy which allows: a suitable home, a coordinated range of services, the keeping up of social intercourse and the mobilisation and support of the informal assistance networks.
Middle-age adults, family support and social policy in France
- Author:
- OGG Jim
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 21(1), April 2002, pp.14-16.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
Looks at recent socio-demographic changes in France which are beginning to challenge some of France's key legal and social policy measures concerning the family and the role that middle-age adults have in supporting other family members. In particular they raise issues that touch on the motives for family support and how the State intervenes in family life.
The French approach to community care
- Author:
- OGG Jim
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 9(2), June 1999, pp.6-8.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
As in Britain social policy concerning support to older people in France since the 1960s has developed to meet the challenges of an ageing population. During the 1970s community care services were developed at local level and a wide range of statutory and independent care sectors currently exist. Looks at the difficulties France has faced and how they have tried to reduce them.