40 Amendments of Jarosław DUDA related to 2021/2253(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5
Citation 5
— having regard to the revised European Social Charter, in particular its articles 15 on the right of persons with disabilities to independence, social integration and participation and 23 on the right of older persons to social protection,
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6
Citation 6
— having regard to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, as referred to in Article 6 TEUin particular art. 25 on the right of older persons to lead a life of independence and dignity and art. 26 on the integration of persons with disabilities,
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
— having regard to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, as referred to in Article6 TEU,
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7
Citation 7
— having regard to the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR), in particular principle 17 on inclusion of persons with disabilities and principle 18 on the right to long-term care,
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)
Citation 7 a (new)
— having regard to the UN Decade on Healthy Ageing2021-2030 and the WHO Framework for countries to achieve an integrated continuum of long-term care1a, _________________ 1a https://www.who.int/news/item/14-03- 2022-who-launches-new-framework-to- support-countries-achieve-integrated- continuum-of-long-term-care
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 a (new)
Citation 9 a (new)
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10
Citation 10
— having regard to the International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions and recommendations, and in particular R202 on Social Protection Floors and C189 Domestic Workers Convention of 2011,
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11
Citation 11
— having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD), and the EU’s ratification of this Convention,
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the EPSR Action Plan sets out concrete initiatives for the implementation of principles that are essential for building a stronger social Europe for just transitions and recovery; whereas principle 17 and 18 jointly promote an individual right to long-term care and define the aim of care and inclusion services to support full participation in society;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas persons in need for care and support are persons who are challenged in their activities of daily living by a disability or chronic health condition; whereas care encompasses all services to addresssupport autonomy and independence of persons in need for care, and by supporting their physical, psychological and social needs of dependents, as well as support, as well to guarantee the equal exercise of all their rights, dignity, autonomy, inclusion and well-being for all members of society;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the stigma surrounding dependenceisability, disease and frailty and the need for care and support intersects with other grounds of discrimination;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the existing challenges in terms of access to formal care services; whereas the sidelining of long-term care settings in the response to COVID, by denying access to protective equipment, testing and medical treatment, emphasises the undervaluation and underfinancing of long-term care in our societies; whereas across the EU, more than half of COVID- 19 related fatalities have been recorded in long-term care settings; whereas blanket social isolation measures have increased the risk of abuse and neglect, as well as deterioration of mental and physical health of persons in need for care and support;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the provision of quality care depends on the existence of a sufficiently large and well-trained workforce, the creation of attractive and decent working conditions and integrated services, and adequate funding for supporting services for persons in need for care and support;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the majority of older people would like to live in their own homes at an advanced age however the minority spends the last years of their life in their private accommodation and many of them live in institutional care facilities;
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the structures of care need to be changed from centralised institutions to community-based care; whereas that shift has been too slow; whereas patient- centred community-based and home care can better support the autonomy of persons in need for care and support; whereas residential care often does not meet the standards of supporting independence of persons using the services and are often associated with the end of life, rather than regarded as places to live and strive in dignity, and places of participation in social and cultural life;
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the structures of care need to be changed from centralised institutions to community-based care and support for independent living; whereas that shift has been too slow;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. Whereas social services focused on supporting independent living, especially personal assistantships, enable access to employment, education and social participation, thus bringing tangible economic and social benefits and increasing the level of life satisfaction of care recipients;
Amendment 312 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas 80 % of all long-term care in Europe is provided by informal carers, which makes care an extremely gendered issue; whereas informal care provision is associated with reduction of employment rates, increase of poverty and social exclusion rates, reduced mental health and increased feelings of social isolation and loneliness1a; _________________ 1a Eurofound Quality of Life Survey 2016
Amendment 382 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P
Recital P
P. whereas access to quality care services, especially long-term care, is increasingly preconditioned on individual and family income; whereas two in three persons in need for care are estimated not to have access to it, mainly for reasons of cost and availability; whereas persons with lower incomes are also a group in which care needs are more prevalent;
Amendment 430 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that it is vital to ensure quality care across the life courseindependence, autonomy and dignity across the lifecourse and that quality care is a major tool to support this; underlines the importance of the accessibility, availability and affordability of care, and that all users and their carers should have a genuine choice when it comes to care services, meaning the form of care (home care, community-based care and other forms of patient-centred care), the place and intensity of care; highlights also that choice should extend to the family and community of a person in need for care on whether or not to provide informal care, and with which intensity;
Amendment 469 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights the need to increase funding for both formal and informal care across the EU to guarantee equal access for dependantspersons in need for care and support to affordable quality care services, as well as an activ fulfilling and sustainable professional life for carers, and therefore calls on the Member States to make the best use of the European structural and investment funds, including the ESF+, as well as the Recovery and Resilience Facility, for investing in care; calls on the Commission to develop guidelines and recommendations for Member States in this sense;
Amendment 502 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Emphasises that significant part of the live-in care services are cross-border and calls on the Commission and Member States to lift barriers in the free provision of care services;
Amendment 510 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to exchange information and best practices with a view to developing a common European quality framework for care, based on the rights to independence and autonomy and inspired by the WHO Framework to suport countries achieving an integrated continuum of long-term care encompassing all care settings, ensuring, encouraging upward social convergence and guaranteeing equal rights for all citizens;
Amendment 590 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Member States to provide continuous holistic support to parents, including parental entitlements and measures that encourage a more substantial role for men in the sharing of care responsibilities, including for very young children; reminds that gender imbalances in care and employment have life-time scarring consequences on many women’s career progressions, resulting in an important gender gap in pensions and high differences in poverty rates in older age;
Amendment 618 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Member States to reform and integrate their social services and protection systems in such a way as to provide effective and equal access to care services throughout the life course, taking a patient-centred, personalised approach, in order to enhance the continuity of care, preventive healthcare, rehabilitation and, whenever possible, independent living;
Amendment 623 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote personal assistantships as an effective form of social services, conducive to maintain independence, dignity and activity of care recipients;
Amendment 630 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Notes that accessibility derives from a combination of availability of a diversified spectrum of care services, cost and flexibility; believes that in this respect different forms of care service provision should be available, such as inin particular that provision of in-home and community- based settingcare services should be upscaled alongside residential care; emphasises that the increase of care needs induced by demographic change require significant investments from the EU and member states to fill the gap of care services;
Amendment 664 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Stresses that the free movement of persons and workers is one of the key pillars of the EU, but and that without cross- border provision of care services it would not be possible to meet the growing demand for carers and at the same time notes that challenges to cross-border care remain; calls for the protection of the social security rights of all mobile care workers and care receivers;
Amendment 686 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for the prioritisation of mental health within public health policy at EU level and to ensure particularly in the context of long-term care that mental health and access to mental health care are effectively available, affordable and of good quality to ensure they contribute to the improvement of quality of life;
Amendment 693 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to improve the provision and access to palliative care for all persons diagnosed with a long-term condition or disability; emphasises that palliative care comprises a spectrum of services improving quality of life with a health condition or disability beyond medication, such as emotional, psychological and spiritual care and support as well as mental health services;
Amendment 724 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls in particular for the reduction of inequality in access to long- term care to be taken into account when developing a set of access targets;
Amendment 728 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Calls for quality indicators that are based on the rights of the persons in need for care, the maintenance of their independence and autonomy as well as social inclusion, and focussing on the expected outcomes of long-term care, such as the improvement of well-being of persons in need for long-term care and support, the evolution of healthy life years and other indicators putting entire care experience of a person in need for care in the centre of attention;
Amendment 745 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Notes that between 40 and 50 million people in the EU provide informal care on a regular basis; notes that this work tends to be long term and can hinderreduces formal labour market participation, resulting in an increased risk of poverty and social exclusion, mental and physical health issues, or loss of income; andlso notes that informal care aggravatinges the gender pension gapand old-age poverty gap, as a higher share of informal carers are women and women tend to provide longer hours of informal care;
Amendment 768 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Highlights the need for a common European minimum definition for unpaid informal care, includingemphasising that providing informal care must be a choice and not born out of the necessity and lack of available care services and the respect for the right to self- determination of persons receiving care in their choice of the form of care they want to receive;
Amendment 818 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Urges the Member States to recognise care professions in their importance in supporting fundamental rights and well-being and to place adequate staffing levels and investment in care staff at the centre of their care policies, and to support the creation of quality jobs in the sector;
Amendment 899 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Recalls that mobile and migrant workers play a significant role in the provision of both residential care, community- based care and home care in the EU;
Amendment 901 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Expresses its concern about the phenomenon of elder abuse, including non-assistance, neglect and the undue use of physical or chemical restraints, particularly in the field of long-term care and support; calls for the development of trainings for informal and formal carers to avoid elder abuse and of independent and effective mechanisms to report and redress situations of elder abuse; calls on the Commission and Member States to explicitly include the fight against elder abuse in all its forms in the EU Care Strategy;
Amendment 961 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Stresses the utmost importance of mainstreaming care and measures for the empowerment of women, dependent personspersons in need for care and support and vulnerable individuals in all relevant national and EU policies; emphasises that a rights-based approach to care would enable such a mainstreaming across often disconnected policy fields, such as health, employment, pensions and social affairs, design of living environments, education and culture, mobility, digital policies and others;
Amendment 1011 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Calls on the Member States to formulate and revise their care policies in permanent dialogue with social partners, experts, civil society and representative organisations of care recipients andpersons in need for care, formal and informal carers;
Amendment 1017 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the EIGE, Eurofound and other relevant agencies have adequate resources to monitor and analyse if and how policies are making the intended improvements in the care sector, including in terms of access, quality, gender equality, infrastructure and work- life balance;