Progress: Procedure completed
| Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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| Lead | FEMM |
ANGELILLI Roberta ( PPE)
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PALIADELI Chrysoula ( S&D),
OVIIR Siiri ( ALDE),
YANNAKOUDAKIS Marina ( ECR)
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| Committee Opinion | ENVI |
Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
RoP 54
Legal Basis:
RoP 54Events
The European Parliament adopted a resolution on the prevention of age-related diseases of women.
Although women have a longer life expectancy at birth than men (82.4 years for women as opposed to 76.4 years for men), Parliament notes that the gap in healthy life expectancy is narrower being 61.7 years for men and 62.6 years for women. They have therefore need of sufficient access to health care and home help to enable them to enjoy equal rights and live independent lives.
Parliament notes that women often choose flexible home-based, part-time, temporary or atypical employment, thereby compromising their career advancement, with major consequences in terms of their pension contributions, making them particularly vulnerable to situations of insecurity and poverty. Concrete and effective measures, such as the adoption of the Directive on equal treatment, are called for with a view to combating the multiple forms of discrimination faced by older women.
To favour active ageing in good health, Parliament recommends:
initiatives to achieve more effective prevention of illnesses and improvement of women’s health; raising EU citizens’ awareness of ageing issues and its real effects, something which has been one of the main messages of the European Year of Active Ageing 2012; particular attention is paid to older women immigrants, who suffer from harsh economic and social conditions and often encounter difficulties in gaining access to social protection measures and health care services; the adoption of comprehensive and multidisciplinary strategies to enable people to age in good health; a more positive attitude towards ageing.
Members call for the publication of an assessment of the impact of the economic and financial crisis on elderly women, focusing on access to preventive health care and treatment. They note that public spending on health accounts for 7.8 % of EU GDP and that, because of population ageing, expenditure on long- and short-term assistance is predicted to rise by 3 % by 2060. They call upon the Member States to strike a fine balance between implementing drastic measures to fight the financial and economic crisis and providing sufficient and adequate funding for health and social care. They also call on the Commission and the Member States to fully recognise the gender dimension in health as an essential part in EU health policies and national health policies.
Age-related illnesses: Parliament points out that many disorders are often underestimated where women are concerned, for example, heart diseases which are considered to be a male problem (whereas cardiovascular diseases kill more than two million people a year in the Member States, accounting for 42 % of all deaths in the EU and are the cause of 45 % of deaths among women compared with 38 % among men). Measures aimed at raising awareness among women of the risk factors involved in cardiovascular diseases are required.
Parliament also mentions the problem of increased alcohol consumption among older women in Europe, and the rising number of female smokers. It calls on the Member States and the Commission to adopt programmes to discourage smoking , aimed especially at young women (the WHO estimates that the percentage of female smokers in Europe will increase from the present 12 % to roughly 20 % by 2025). The Commission should also encourage initiatives to improve information on the risks associated with smoking and drinking and on the benefits of a proper diet and sufficient exercise, these being ways to prevent obesity, high blood pressure, and the related complications.
Other awareness programmes should be initiated in order to better inform the public about diseases of the bones and joints and Alzheimer’s disease which affects about 1 person in 20 over 65, 1 in 5 over 80 and 1 in 3 over 90. A holistic and gender-sensitive approach to Alzheimer's disease and other dementias is called for.
Parliament also calls on the Commission to prepare:
a specific EU strategy on the prevention, diagnosis and management of diabetes ; a study on the link between the economic downturn on elderly women, given the suicide rate is highest among the over-65s and the numbers of suicide attempts are higher for women than for men; more accurate information about mental health and the relationship between mental health and a healthy lifetime; specific training courses for general practitioners and mental health professionals, including doctors, psychologists, and nurses, on the prevention and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and depressive disorders , paying specific attention to the additional challenges faced by older women; actions in the field of memory disabling diseases, such as dementia , and increase their efforts in medical and social research in order to increase the quality of life of people with the disease and that of their carers.
Access to health services: Parliament calls on the Member States to support the initiatives needed to help older women access medical and health services, including women living far from larger centres and in areas difficult to access. It calls on the Member States to further develop eHealth services and gender-sensitive ambient-assisted living solutions in order to promote independent living at home, to make health services more efficient and accessible for older women who are isolated and to establish a 24-hour telephone advice network .
In particular, Parliament calls for:
a rights-based approach to be taken in order to enable older people to play an active role when decisions are made on the choice and the design of the care and social services provided for them; welfare protection schemes, including health insurance, takes account of unemployment and social difficulties affecting women; better access to medical, healthcare and other forms of assistance for women who, notwithstanding their own health problems, are required to care for dependants; an increasing amount of medical and paramedical personnel prepared to adopt an approach which, given the gender- and age-specific factors involved, should allow for the special psychological, interpersonal, and information needs of older women; telephone help-lines providing care, protection and psychological support for the elderly; the collection of data and the exchange of good practices regarding access to health services; the strengthening of preventive healthcare for older women by providing, for example, accessible and regular mammograms and cervical smear tests and the removal of age limits in access to health prevention; the reorganisation of public and private institutions providing healthcare for the elderly and run along hospital lines in a manner that is more congenial to residents.
Research and prevention: Parliament notes with concern EU research results published in April 2011 showing that some 28% of women aged 60 years or older have been mistreated in the last 12 months. It takes the view that priority must be given to the protection of the elderly from abuse, mistreatment, neglect and exploitation, whether intentional and deliberate or resulting from carelessness. It calls on the Member States to strengthen their actions to prevent elder abuse at home and in institutions.
In regard to research , they call for the development, in the context of Horizon 2020, of a strategic plan of research into health care for women over the next decade and the creation of a women's health research institute to ensure implementation thereof.
In respect of prevention, Members call on the Council, the Commission and the Member States, each at their own level, to:
promote dietary habits and lifestyles favourable to better health (e.g. (EATWELL project, EU Platform on Diet, Physical Activity and Health Salt Reduction Framework), and implement efficiently the European partnership for action against cancer.
Members also call on the Commission to:
promote prevention across sectors and at all levels of society and to promote health through the timely diagnosis of illnesses and screening, encourage within the framework of Horizon 2020 closer scientific collaboration and comparative research on multiple sclerosis within the European Union; consult with the Council with a view to reactivating, and giving proper effect to, the recommendation on cancer screening , focussing in particular on sections of the population who are disadvantaged in social and economic terms; promote women’s rights with a view to combating all forms of age- and gender-based violence and discrimination.
Parliament supports the European innovation partnership on active and healthy ageing as a pilot initiative seeking to achieve a two-year increase in expectancy of life in good health for EU citizens by 2020 and resolves to achieve three objectives for Europe in terms of improving standards of health and quality of life for the elderly and the sustainability and effectiveness of care arrangements.
Regretting the fact that 97 % of health budgets is earmarked for the treatment of non-communicable diseases and only 3 % for investment in prevention, Member States are called on to increase their health budget to include prevention activities . They are also invited to:
develop innovative solutions directly through cooperation with patients in order to meet the needs of older people more effectively; put more focus on osteoporosis awareness campaigns and to provide clearer information about osteoporosis screening to prevent fractures; adapt the age limit for screening programmes , at least in countries with a higher incidence of disease and in cases where patients' family history puts them particularly at risk; support awareness campaigns promoting healthy diets and physical activity and improve information and education at school and through health messages, regarding the importance of ensuring correct nutrition and the health risks of the failure to do so.
The Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality adopted an own-initiative report by Roberta ANGELILLI (EPP, IT) on the prevention of age-related diseases of women.
Although women have a longer life expectancy at birth than men (82.4 years for women as opposed to 76.4 years for men), Members note that the gap in healthy life expectancy is more narrow being 61.7 years for men and 62.6 years for women. They have therefore need of s ufficient access to health care and home help to enable them to enjoy equal rights and live independent lives.
Members note that women often choose flexible home-based, part-time, temporary or atypical employment, thereby compromising their career advancement, with major consequences in terms of their pension contributions, making them particularly vulnerable to situations of insecurity and poverty. Concrete and effective measures, such as the adoption of the Directive on equal treatment, are called for with a view to combating the multiple forms of discrimination faced by older women.
To favour active ageing in good health, Members recommend:
initiatives to achieve more effective prevention of illnesses and improvement of women’s health; raising EU citizens’ awareness of ageing issues and its real effects, something which has been one of the main messages of the European Year of Active Ageing 2012; particular attention is paid to older women immigrants, who suffer from harsh economic and social conditions and often encounter difficulties in gaining access to social protection measures and health care services; the adoption of comprehensive and multidisciplinary strategies to enable people to age in good health.
Members call for the publication of an assessment of the impact of the economic and financial crisis on elderly women, focusing on access to preventive health care and treatment. They note that public spending on health accounts for 7.8 % of EU GDP and that, because of population ageing, expenditure on long- and short-term assistance is predicted to rise by 3 % by 2060. They call upon the Member States to strike a fine balance between implementing drastic measures to fight the financial and economic crisis and providing sufficient and adequate funding for health and social care. They also call on the Commission and the Member States to fully recognise the gender dimension in health as an essential part in EU health policies and national health policies.
Age-related illnesses: Members point out that many disorders are often underestimated where women are concerned, for example, heart diseases which are considered to be a male problem (whereas cardiovascular diseases kill more than two million people a year in the Member States, accounting for 42 % of all deaths in the EU and are the cause of 45 % of deaths among women compared with 38 % among men). Measures aimed at raising awareness among women of the risk factors involved in cardiovascular diseases are required.
Members also mention the problem of increased alcohol consumption among older women in Europe, and the rising number of female smokers. They call on the Member States and the Commission to adopt programmes to discourage smoking , aimed especially at young women (the WHO estimates that the percentage of female smokers in Europe will increase from the present 12 % to roughly 20 % by 2025). The Commission should also encourage initiatives to improve information on the risks associated with smoking and drinking and on the benefits of a proper diet and sufficient exercise, these being ways to prevent obesity, high blood pressure, and the related complications.
Other awareness programmes should be initiated in order to better inform the public about diseases of the bones and joints and Alzheimer’s disease which affects about 1 person in 20 over 65, 1 in 5 over 80 and 1 in 3 over 90. A holistic and gender-sensitive approach to Alzheimer's disease and other dementias is called for.
Members also call on the Commission to prepare:
a specific EU strategy on the prevention, diagnosis and management of diabetes ; a study on the link between the economic downturn on elderly women, given the suicide rate is highest among the over-65s and the numbers of suicide attempts are higher for women than for men; more accurate information about mental health and the relationship between mental health and a healthy lifetime; specific training courses for general practitioners and mental health professionals, including doctors, psychologists, and nurses, on the prevention and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and depressive disorders , paying specific attention to the additional challenges faced by older women; actions in the field of memory disabling diseases, such as dementia , and increase their efforts in medical and social research in order to increase the quality of life of people with the disease and that of their carers.
Access to health services: Members call on the Member States to support the initiatives needed to help older women access medical and health services, including women living far from larger centres and in areas difficult to access. They call on the Member States to further develop eHealth services and gender-sensitive ambient-assisted living solutions in order to promote independent living at home, and to make health services more efficient and accessible for older women who are isolated .
In particular, Members call for:
a rights-based approach to be taken in order to enable older people to play an active role when decisions are made on the choice and the design of the care and social services provided for them; welfare protection schemes, including health insurance, takes account of unemployment and social difficulties affecting women; better access to medical, healthcare and other forms of assistance for women who, notwithstanding their own health problems, are required to care for dependants; an increasing amount of medical and paramedical personnel prepared to adopt an approach which, given the gender- and age-specific factors involved, should allow for the special psychological, interpersonal, and information needs of older women; telephone help-lines providing care, protection and psychological support for the elderly; the collection of data and the exchange of good practices regarding access to health services; the strengthening of preventive healthcare for older women by providing, for example, accessible and regular mammograms and cervical smear tests and the removal of age limits in access to health prevention.
Research and prevention: Members note wit concern EU research results published in April 2011 showing that some 28% of women aged 60 years or older have been mistreated in the last 12 months. They take the view that priority must be given to the protection of the elderly from abuse , mistreatment, neglect and exploitation, whether intentional and deliberate or resulting from carelessness. They call on the Member States to strengthen their actions to prevent elder abuse at home and in institutions.
In regard to research, they call for the development, in the context of Horizon 2020, of a strategic plan of research into health care for women over the next decade and the creation of a women's health research institute to ensure implementation thereof.
In respect of prevention, Members call on the Council, the Commission and the Member States, each at their own level, to:
support the European innovation partnership on active and healthy ageing as a pilot initiative seeking to achieve a two-year increase in expectancy of life in good health for EU citizens by 2020 ; promote dietary habits and lifestyles favourable to better health (e.g. (EATWELL project, EU Platform on Diet, Physical Activity and Health Salt Reduction Framework), and implement efficiently the European partnership for action against cancer.
Members also call on the Commission to:
promote prevention across sectors and at all levels of society and to promote health through the timely diagnosis of illnesses and screening, encourage within the framework of Horizon 2020 closer scientific collaboration and comparative research on multiple sclerosis within the European Union; consult with the Council with a view to reactivating, and giving proper effect to, the recommendation on cancer screening , focussing in particular on sections of the population who are disadvantaged in social and economic terms; promote women ’ s rights with a view to combating all forms of age- and gender-based violence and discrimination.
Regretting the fact that 97 % of health budgets is earmarked for the treatment of non-communicable diseases and only 3 % for investment in prevention, Member States are called on to increase their health budget to include prevention activities . They are also invited to:
develop innovative solutions directly through cooperation with patients in order to meet the needs of older people more effectively; put more focus on osteoporosis awareness campaigns and to provide clearer information about osteoporosis screening to prevent fractures; support awareness campaigns promoting healthy diets and physical activity and improve information and education at school and through health messages, regarding the importance of ensuring correct nutrition and the health risks of the failure to do so.
Documents
- Commission response to text adopted in plenary: SP(2013)175
- Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament: T7-0482/2012
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Committee report tabled for plenary: A7-0340/2012
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE496.309
- Committee draft report: PE491.089
- Committee draft report: PE491.089
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE496.309
- Commission response to text adopted in plenary: SP(2013)175
Activities
- Roberta ANGELILLI
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Isabelle DURANT
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Sari ESSAYAH
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Danuta JAZŁOWIECKA
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Petru Constantin LUHAN
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Miroslav MIKOLÁŠIK
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Andreas MÖLZER
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Siiri OVIIR
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Joanna Katarzyna SKRZYDLEWSKA
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Silvia-Adriana ȚICĂU
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Angelika WERTHMANN
Plenary Speeches (1)
| Amendments | Dossier |
| 193 |
2012/2129(INI)
2012/09/20
FEMM
193 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 5 a (new) – having regard to the Commission communication on telemedicine for the benefit of patients, healthcare systems and society (COM(2008)689),
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas the European Union promotes human dignity, as laid down in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, and recognises not only that every person is entitled to have access to preventive health care and medical treatment, but also that older people have the right to live a decent, independent life and play their part in culture and society;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Calls on the Member States to carry out public information campaigns targeted at women and aimed at raising awareness of the risk factors involved in cardiovascular diseases and to implement specialised in- service training programmes for health professionals;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Regrets the limited attention turned to increasing alcohol consumption among older women in Europe; calls on the European Commission and the Member States to launch studies in order to tackle this issue and its impact on older women's physical and mental health;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Calls for information concerning health to be disseminated by means of publicity campaigns or health information for Member State nationals, in particular the less favoured sections of the population; urges each Member State to establish by age bracket a list of appropriate medical examinations to be reimbursed in full;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to launch information campaigns targeted at pre-menopausal or menopausal women;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 b (new) 7b. Regrets the lack of attention being given to the effects on elderly women in Europe of increased alcohol consumption and calls on the Commission and Member States to carry out surveys with a view to dealing with the problem and its impact on their physical and mental health;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Calls on the Commission, while respecting Article 168 (7) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, to encourage initiatives to promote better cardiovascular health, not least with the aid of the necessary information on the risks associated with smoking and drinking and on the benefits of a proper diet and sufficient exercise, these being ways to prevent obesity, high blood pressure, and the related complications;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Calls on the Commission to encourage initiatives to promote better
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 – subparagraph 1 (new) Calls on Member States to increase public awareness of diseases of the bones and joints by organising public information and education campaigns on their prevention and cure;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Calls on the European Commission to initiate an EU action plan on Non- Communicable Diseases as a follow-up to the outcomes of the UN Summit on Non- Communicable Diseases in September 2011 and the public consultation process launched by the Commission in March- April 2012;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Urges the Commission to focus on young people in particular regarding the forthcoming review of Directive 2001/37/EC on the approximation of the laws regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States concerning the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Calls on the Commission to draw up and implement a specific EU strategy on the prevention, diagnosis, and management of diabetes, also covering information and research; while respecting Article 168 (7) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Calls on the Commission to draw up and implement a specific EU strategy in the form of a Council recommendation on the prevention, diagnosis, and management of diabetes, also covering information and
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Calls on the Commission to draw up and implement a specific EU strategy on the prevention, diagnosis, and management of diabetes, also covering information and research, including a cross-cutting gender approach and equality between men and women;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Calls on the European Commission and the Member States to adopt a holistic and gender sensitive approach to Alzheimer's disease and other dementias in order to improve the quality of life and dignity of patients and their families;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to recognise the importance of gender- and age-sensitive curative and palliative health care; calls on the Member States to expand research into gender-related diseases, including research into the causes, possible prevention and treatments of these diseases;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to improve the quality of life and dignity of Alzheimer’s patients and their families, taking into account gender-related issues;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Notes with concern that the suicide rate in the EU is highest among the over-65s and the numbers of suicide attempts are higher for women than for men and are increasing because of the economic downturn's aggravated impact on older women;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Notes with concern that the suicide rate in the EU is highest among the over-65s and the numbers of suicide attempts are higher for women than for men and are increasing because of the greater impact of the economic crisis on elderly women;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Notes with concern that the suicide rate in the EU is highest among the over-65s and the numbers of suicide attempts are higher for women than for men
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Notes with concern that the suicide rate in the EU is highest among the over-65s and the numbers of suicide attempts are higher for women than for men and that this has grown worse with the economic crisis;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Recital Β a (new) Βa. whereas, despite a substantial increase in life expectancy accompanied by steadily rising living standards in the industrialised countries, enabling the elderly of today to be far more active than in previous decades, negative stereotyping and prejudices with regard to the elderly are continuing to form major obstacles to their social integration, resulting in social exclusion directly impacting on their quality of life and mental health;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Calls on the Commission to publish a study on the impact of the financial and economic crisis on older women, in particular with regard to their access to preventive and curative healthcare
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Calls on the Member States to organise specific training courses for general practitioners and mental health professionals, including doctors, psychologists, and nurses, on the prevention and treatment of
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Calls on the Member States to organise specific training courses for general practitioners and mental health professionals, including doctors, psychologists, and nurses, on the prevention and treatment of depressive disorders, taking account of specific gender-related issues;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Calls on the Member States to organise specific training courses for general practitioners and mental health professionals, including doctors, psychologists, and nurses, on the prevention and treatment of
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Calls upon the Member States to prioritise actions in the field of memory disabling diseases, such as dementia, and increase their efforts in medical and social research in memory disabling diseases, such as dementia, to increase the quality of life of people with the disease and their carers, ensure the sustainability of the health and care services and boost growth at European level;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Calls on Member States to ensure that public and private sector staff providing care for the elderly take part in ongoing training programmes and undergo regular assessment;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 b (new) 13b. Calls for the Member States to urgently create national plans and strategies for Alzheimer's diseases if they haven't yet done so;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 b (new) 13b. Calls on Member States to encourage specialist medical studies in gerontology at public universities;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 – introductory part 14. Calls on the Member States to support the initiatives needed to help older women to gain access to medical and health services, including women living far from larger centres and in areas difficult of access, regardless of their personal economic circumstances, laying emphasis on individualised assistance, including home care;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on the Member States to support the initiatives needed to help older women to gain access to medical and health services, including in remote areas, regardless of their personal economic circumstances, laying emphasis on individualised assistance, including home care;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas the latest analysis shows that women have a longer life expectancy at birth than men (82.4 years as opposed to 76.4);
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on the Member States to support the initiatives needed to help older women to gain access to medical and health services, regardless of their personal economic circumstances, laying emphasis on individualised assistance, including home care, and telemedicine, in so far as it can improve the quality of life of those suffering from chronic diseases and help cut waiting lists;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on the Member States to support the initiatives needed to help older women to gain access to medical and health services, regardless of their personal economic, social, linguistic, cultural and legal circumstances, laying emphasis on individualised assistance, including home care;·
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on the Member States to support
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on the Member States to support the initiatives needed to help older women to gain access to medical and health services, regardless of their personal economic circumstances, laying emphasis on individualised assistance, including home care, on telemedicine and on specific forms of support and assistance for caregivers;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 – subparagraph 1 (new) Calls on Member States, when planning health-service budgets, also to analyse, monitor and guarantee the gender dimension;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Calls on the Member States to further develop eHealth services and gender sensitive ambient assisting living solutions in order to favour independent living at home and make health services more efficient for older women who are more often excluded of the benefits of these facilities;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Calls for a rights-based approach to be taken in order to enable older people to play an active role when decisions are made on the choice and the design of the care and social services provided for them;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Calls on Member States to ensure that welfare protection schemes, including health insurance, takes account of unemployment and social difficulties affecting women so that they are not left unprotected;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. It is important to support and facilitate access to medical, healthcare and other forms of assistance for women who, notwithstanding their own health problems, are required to care for dependants;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Urges that public and private institutions providing healthcare for the elderly and run along hospital lines to be reorganised in a manner more congenial to inmates, not only providing them with medical care but also giving priority to any form of independent or creative activity in order to prevent them becoming institutionalised;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas women have a longer life expectancy than men (82.4 years as opposed to 76.4); whereas the gap in healthy life expectancy is more narrow being 61.7 years for men and 62.6 years for women;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 b (new) 14b. Calls on Member States to further develop online health services so as to help make it possible for elderly women, who are often isolated for reasons of mobility, to remain independent and continue living at home and make health services more accessible to them;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 b (new) 14b. Firmly believes that elderly inmates in public or private residential care must be consulted the running of these institutions;·
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Maintains that increasing amount of medical and paramedical personnel have to be highly trained and prepared to adopt an approach which, given the gender- and age-specific factors involved, should allow for the special psychological, interpersonal, and information needs of older women;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Calls for medical studies to include wider training in listening skills and psychology; calls for social workers also to be more closely involved in this policy of prevention;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Encourages associations and telephone help-lines providing ,care, protection and psychological support for the elderly;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to collect data serving to identify good practice regarding access to health services, not least with a view to avoiding excessively long waiting lists, increasing out of pocket expenses and the red tape that discourages in particular older women from using prevention systems;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to collect data and exchange good practices serving to identify good practice regarding access to health services, not least with a view to avoiding excessively long waiting lists and the red tape that discourages older women from using prevention systems;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to collect data, taking care to include gender-related elements, serving to identify good practice regarding access to health services,
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Encourages Member States to strengthen preventive healthcare for older women by providing, for example, for accessible and regular mammograms and cervical smear tests, to erase age limits in access to health prevention such as breast cancer screening, and to raise awareness of the importance of screening;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Calls on the Commission to intensify its efforts to disseminate an EU-wide culture of prevention through specific information and awareness campaigns aimed at schools, universities, workplaces, and centres for the elderly, drawing on the cooperation of professionals, local authorities, and NGOs;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas women have a longer life expectancy than men (82.4 years for women as opposed to 76.4 for men);
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Calls on the Commission to intensify its efforts to disseminate an EU-wide culture of prevention
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 – subparagraph 1 (new) Calls on Member States to develop eHealth services and a network of 24- hour telephone advice services in order to help people to manage independently at home;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Calls on the Commission to create instruments to foster discussions between Member States with a view to facilitating the exchange of best practices, and also to advise governments on creating an environment conducive to spreading awareness of age-related illnesses in the Member States;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18a. Calls on the Member States to eliminate discriminatory practices affecting older women’s access to healthcare services, such as: age restrictions on access to screening (e.g. mammography, colonoscopy) and medical programmes, and difficulties in accessing prostheses, rehabilitation equipment and rehabilitation services;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18a. Notes with concern EU research results published in April 2011 showing that some 28% of women aged 60 years or older have been mistreated in the last 12 month
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18a. It is important to adopt an approach to medical research which takes account of problems specifically relating to men and women respectively;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a(new) Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 b (new) 18b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to include the fight against all forms of elder abuse in all contexts in the work priority of the new rights and Justice Programme
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 b (new) 18b. Calls for the development in the context of Horizon 2020 of a strategic plan of research into health care for women over the next decade and the creation of a women's health research institute to ensure implementation thereof;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 b (new) 18b. It is important to ensure the presence of female experts on national consultative technology and science committees for the assessment of pharmaceuticals;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas elderly women are particularly vulnerable to climate change related health impacts, whereas the majority of European studies have shown that women are more at risk, in both relative and absolute terms following studies from the heat-wave in France in 2003 (which caused approximately 15 000 deaths in France and mostly affected old women,
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 c (new) 18c. Calls on the Council, the Commission and the Member States to include elder abuse as a research topic in the Joint Programme on Neurodegenerative Diseases to measure its prevalence and impact on people with dementia
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 c (new) 18c. Supports the European innovation partnership on active and healthy ageing as a pilot initiative seeking to achieve a two- year increase in expectancy of life in good health for EU citizens by 2020 and resolves to achieve three objectives for Europe in terms of improving standards of health and quality of life for the elderly and the sustainability and effectiveness of care arrangements,
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 d (new) 18d. Welcomes projects and initiatives nutrition and lifestyle (EATWELL project, EU Platform on Diet, Physical Activity and Health Salt Reduction Framework), and the European partnership for action against cancer;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 e (new) 18e. Stresses that all objectives and actions under the second EU programme of action regarding health should help increase understanding and acceptance of the different needs of men and women and corresponding approaches to health issues;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19a. Welcomes the Commission proposal concerning a cohesion policy package (2014-2020) identifying active and healthy ageing and innovation amongst its investment priorities;;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Regrets the fact that 97% of health budgets is earmarked for the treatment of non-communicable diseases and only 3% for investment in prevention at a time when the cost of therapies and diagnosis is continuing to rise; calls in this respect on the Member states to dedicate a greater share of their health budget to prevention activities;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Regrets the fact that 97% of health budgets is earmarked for the treatment of non-communicable diseases and only 3% for investment in prevention at a time when the cost of therapies and diagnosis is continuing to rise; therefore urges Member States to earmark larger health budget appropriations for prevention activities;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Regrets the fact that 97% of health budgets is earmarked for the treatment of non-communicable diseases and only 3% for investment in prevention at a time when the cost of t
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Regrets the fact that 97% of health budgets is earmarked for the treatment of non-communicable diseases and only 3% for investment in prevention at a time when the cost of therapies and diagnosis is continuing to rise; calls on the Member States to increase their health budget in the area of disease prevention;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Regrets the fact that 97% of health budgets is earmarked for the treatment of non-communicable diseases and only 3% for investment in prevention at a time when the cost of therapies and diagnosis is continuing to rise; calls on Member States accordingly to earmark a greater part of their health budget to prevention activities;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas in 2010 the employment rate among women aged between 55 and 64 was 38.6%
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 a (new) 20a. Calls on the Commission to place more emphasis on tackling the causes of illnesses and, to that end, to promote prevention across sectors and at all levels of society; calls on the Commission to promote health through the timely diagnosis of illnesses, maintaining a healthy lifestyle, adequate healthcare, and ensuring that older workers enjoy suitable working conditions;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 a (new) 20a. Calls for account to be taken of factors relating to gender and age in giving nutritional advice;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Calls on the Member States to put more focus on osteoporosis awareness campaigns and to provide clearer information about osteoporosis screening to prevent fractures, including bone densitometry scans, which should be made more widely available;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 22. Endorses the WHO
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 a (new) 22a. Reminds Member States that older women are even more vulnerable to elder abuse then older men and calls on the Member states to strengthen their actions to prevent elder abuse at home and in institutions;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 a (new) 22a. Draws to the attention of the Member States that elderly women are even more vulnerable to mistreatment and urges the Member States to step up measures to prevent abuse of elderly people in the home or in institutions;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Calls on the Member States, as far as the training of medical and paramedical personnel is concerned, to highlight the differences in the clinical signs and symptoms of cardiovascular diseases occurring in women, stressing the benefits of prompt intervention;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 a (new) 23a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that women carrying out demanding work in specific professions (nurses, carers, seamstresses, checkout assistants, etc.) or engaging in manual labour benefit from greater healthcare provision;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 a (new) 23a. Calls on the Commission and the Council to encourage within the framework of Horizon 2020 closer scientific collaboration and comparative research on multiple sclerosis within the European Union so as to make it easier to provide suitable treatment for the prevention of this disease, which causes serious disruption of motor functions particularly in elderly women;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Calls on the Commission to launch specific awareness campaigns focusing on correct nutrition and the importance of physical exercise for older women, given that these can play a role in fall prevention and help reduce the incidence of heart and circulatory disorders, osteoporosis, and some types of cancer;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas women earn less than men (the average gender pay gap in the EU is 17.5%)
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Calls on the Commission to
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Calls on the Commission to launch specific awareness campaigns, targeting elderly women, more specifically, focusing on correct nutrition and the importance of physical exercise, given that these can help reduce the incidence of heart and circulatory disorders, osteoporosis, and some types of cancer;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Calls on the Commission to launch specific awareness campaigns focusing on correct nutrition and the importance of physical exercise, given that these can help reduce the incidence of heart and circulatory disorders, osteoporosis, and some types of cancer and to support public awareness campaigns on the importance of seeking prompt specialist medical assistance for mental disorders accompanying old age and detailed information and guidance for relatives or carers in the case of elderly patients suffering from such disorders, as well as information campaigns in response to poly-pharmacy in the elderly, given the danger of side-effects, interaction and mental disorders resulting from the excessive consumption of pharmaceuticals over a long period;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Calls on the Commission to launch specific awareness campaigns focusing on
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Calls on the Commission to launch specific awareness campaigns focusing on correct nutrition and the importance of physical exercise for elderly women, given that these can help to prevent falls and can reduce the incidence of heart and circulatory disorders, osteoporosis, and some types of cancer;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 a (new) 24a. Calls for action to be taken accordingly, in the form of information and education at school and through health messages, regarding the importance of ensuring correct nutrition and the health risks of failure to do so;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25. Calls on the Commission to consult with the Council with a view to reactivating, and giving proper effect to, the recommendation on cancer screening; focused on sections of the population who are disadvantaged in social and economic terms, with a view to reducing health disparities; calls on Member States which have not yet done so to implement the recommendation in accordance with the European quality assurance guidelines;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Calls on the Commission
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, as part of preventive measures, to widen the scope of diseases and to lower the age limit for screening programmes, at least in countries with a higher incidence of disease and in cases where patients' family history puts them particularly at risk, and also to include older women in such programmes, bearing in mind their longer life expectancy;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 a (new) 26a. Calls on the Member states to fight against age and gender discrimination in healthcare, notably in screening programmes and surgeries, as every patient has the right to be diagnosed and treated adequately whatever their age and gender;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas women earn less than men (the average gender pay gap in the EU is 17.5%)
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 a (new) 26a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote women’s rights with a view to combating all forms of age- and gender-based violence and discrimination, for example through awareness and information campaigns targeted at the entire European populace from a very early age;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 a (new) 26a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to formulate public information campaigns regarding Alzheimer’s disease (that is to say the disease itself and possibilities of treatment and care) in cooperation with national and European Alzheimer associations;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 27. Calls on the Member States to intensify clinical research on women and believes that the recent proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning clinical trials on medicinal products for human use repealing Directive 2001/20/EC
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 a (new) 27a. Calls on the Member States to develop innovative solutions directly through cooperation with patients in order to meet the needs of older people more effectively;
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 10 a (new) – having regard to Decision No 1350/2007/ECof the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2007 establishing a second programme of community action in the field of health (2008-2013),
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas women earn less than men (the average gender pay gap in the EU is 17.5%); whereas lower earnings mean correspondingly lower pensions;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas women earn less than men (the average gender pay gap in the EU is 17.5%), a difference which also affects pensions;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas, in order to achieve work-life balance, women,
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas, in order to achieve work-life balance, women, in addition to the unpaid work of looking after their home and their family, often opt, or are forced to opt, for part-time, intermittent, or atypical work, a fact duly reflected in the lower pension contributions that they manage to accumulate;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F a (new) Fa. whereas in some Member States, where indictors for measuring the gender pension gap has been already been developed, women at the age of 65 receive an individual pension that is almost 60% lower than that of men of the same age, whereas an EU-indicator for measuring the gender pension gap is urgently needed;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F a (new) Fa. whereas the raising of the retirement age falls within the competence of the Member States, and there is a need to simplify Member States’ legislation on retirement;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F a (new) Fa. whereas the generation of women +50, often described as the "sandwich generation" or as "working daughters and working mothers", tend to have fewer possibilities to take care of their own health as they often take care of their parents and their grand children;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas in Europe 23.9% of the population aged between 50 and 64 are at risk of poverty, the exact percentages being 25.9% for women compared with 21.7% of men; whereas figures in the European Union are ranging from 39% and 49% in some countries and climbs to 51% in one EU country,
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas not least as a result of divorce, separation, or widowhood, 75.8% of women over 65 live alone and whereas on average 3 in 10 households in the European Union are single-person households, the majority of them comprising women living alone, particularly elderly women, and this percentage is rising; whereas single- person or single-income households in most Member States are treated unfavourably, both in absolute and relative terms, with regard to taxation, social security, housing, health care, insurance and pensions; whereas public policies should not penalise people for – voluntarily or involuntarily – living alone;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H a (new) Ha. whereas older migrant women are often suffering from poor socio-economic situations and face difficulties to benefit from social protection measures and access to national healthcare systems, which can affect their living standards and health status
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 11 a (new) – having regard to the Council conclusions "Innovative approaches for chronic diseases in public health and healthcare systems" of 7 December 2010
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) Ia. whereas aging population in Europe can post further challenges regarding drug abuse and dependence, whereas a need for clearer evidence base for addiction treatment has been evident for years;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) Ia. whereas older migrants are often suffering from poor socio-economic situations and face difficulties to benefit from social protection measures and access to national healthcare systems, especially older women who are alone, widowed or divorced, which can affect their living standards and health status;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) Ia. whereas older women as a disadvantaged group often face multiple discrimination due to e.g. their age, gender and ethnic background;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) Ia. whereas in rural areas private health care is harder to come by than in urban areas, particularly in view of the shortage of health professionals and hospital facilities, including emergency medical services;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) Ia. whereas elderly women, particularly those living in isolation, frequently find themselves in difficult social and economic situations affecting their quality of life and state of physical and mental health;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) Ia. whereas, to meet the needs of elderly women properly, a better understanding of the illnesses affecting them is necessary;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I b (new) Ib. whereas these factors affect older women's ability to create and/or maintain social networks and thus lead active lives;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I b (new) Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I c (new) Ic. notes that all these factors, including isolation, make it harder for elderly women to stay active and lead full social lives;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas, due to longer life expectance and gender sensitivity of certain diseases, women are affected to a greater extent by chronic and disabling diseases and correspondingly more vulnerable to deterioration in their quality of life;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 11 b (new) – having regard to the Belgian Presidency's report of 23 November 2010 on the gender pay gap
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J a (new) Ja. whereas there are differences between men and women regarding the impact, progression and consequences of many disorders;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O O. whereas neurodegenerative diseases are more frequent in the over-65s (they affect about 1 person in 20 after age 65, 1 in 5 after age 80, and 1 in 3 after age 90)
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O a (new) Oa. whereas stigma and lack of awareness about neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia are experienced both by the people with dementia and their informal carers, access to early diagnosis is often delayed and consequently treatment outcome is poor;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O a (new) Oa. whereas age is a risk factor for the development of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (the most common form of dementia); whereas over 7.3 million people in Europe suffer from dementia; whereas studies show that the Alzheimer’s disease rate among women over 90 is 81.7 % (compared with 24% for men);
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution Recital P P. whereas women are at greater risk of developing diseases of the bones and joints (osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis, and brittle bones) (about 75% of hip fractures caused by osteoporosis occur in women);
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution Recital P a (new) Pa. whereas dementia carries the biggest burden of diseases for people aged 60 and over, partially linked to their higher life expectancy there are many more women than men living with the disease;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution Recital Q Q. whereas depression
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution Recital Q Q. whereas depression is a serious form of mental disorder that affects both women
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution Recital R a (new) Ra. whereas hearing impartment and eye disorders also contribute heavily to the burden of years lived with functional limitations, timely and adequate diagnosis quality treatment and access to quality medical devices can prevent further decline or partially restore functioning;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution Recital R a (new) Ra. whereas around 600 000 Europeans suffer from multiple sclerosis, most of them being women; whereas this is the most common form of neurovegetative disorder and one of the main causes on non-traumatic disability among elderly women;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 17 a (new) – having regard to its resolution of 18 October 2006 on breast cancer in the enlarged European Union,
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution Recital R a (new) Ra. whereas many European countries have lowered their guard and slackened awareness-raising campaigns regarding the adverse effects of smoking and alcohol;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution Recital S S. whereas equal access to health services must be guaranteed and the quality of health care needs to be improved while respecting Article 168 (7) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution Recital S S. whereas equal access to health services for women and men must be guaranteed and the quality of health care needs to be improved;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution Recital S S. whereas equal access to health services must be guaranteed and the quality of health care needs to be improved, with more attention being paid to the particular situation of women in rural areas, many of whom live alone;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution Recital T T. whereas
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution Recital T T. whereas because of
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution Recital T a (new) Ta. whereas the management of preventive measures, social innovation and costs call for an in-depth review which should be carried out in the best interests of the patient and of society;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution Recital T a(new) Ta. whereas telemedicine can improve access to medical assistance unavailable in inaccessible areas and may improve the quality and frequency of the specialist medical care required by certain elderly people, given their particular state of health;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution Recital T b (new) Tb. whereas investments in research and innovation are essential to maintain a high quality of life making it possible to meet the major challenge of growing old;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution Recital U U. whereas prevention, early detection, and improvement of the population’s physical and mental health could lengthen life expectancy, increase years of life in good health and reduce health care expenditure, thus making for sustainability in the long term;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 22 a (new) – having regard to its resolution of 19 January 2011 on a European initiative on Alzheimer's disease and other dementias (2010/2084(INI))
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution Recital U U. whereas prevention
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution Recital U a (new) Ua. whereas preventive measures need to be priority in health care, with the special attention to disadvantaged groups;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution Recital U a (new) Ua. whereas health literacy is necessary to enable the public to navigate complex health systems and gain better understanding of what they themselves can do throughout their lives to prevent age-related disorders;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution Recital U b (new) Ub. whereas gender sensitivity of diseases and medicines is currently not sufficiently studied clinical trials being run mostly on men of younger age;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution Recital W Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution Recital W Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution Recital W Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution Recital W W. whereas women make greater use of medicines and herbal remedies, with the consequent risks of
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution Recital W W. whereas women make greater use of medicines and herbal remedies,
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution Recital X Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 25 a (new) – having regard to its report of 8 February 2011 on the face of female poverty in the European Union
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution Recital X Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution Recital X X. whereas many women use oral contraceptives while they are of fertile age
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution Recital X X. whereas
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution Recital Y a (new) Ya. whereas according to the World Health Organization (WHO), between four and six per cent of older people have experienced some form of abuse in their own homes, ranging from physical, sexual, and psychological abuse, to financial exploitation, neglect, and abandonment
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution Recital Y b (new) Yb. whereas dementia is more common in people over 65 years, it affects about one person in 20 over 65, one in five over 80, and one in three over 90 years, whereas generally, prevalence is higher among old women than among old men
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Recognises that, although women live longer than men, they do not
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Notes that elderly women who live alone, are not mobile and have no relatives living nearby need sufficient access to health care and home help to enable them to enjoy equal rights and live independent lives;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Maintains that policies aimed at promoting work-life balance and social participation put women in a better position to tackle active and healthy ageing, and therefore calls on the Member States to
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Maintains that policies aimed at promoting work-life balance put women in a better position to tackle active ageing in good health, and therefore calls on the Member States to intensify their efforts in that direction;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 30 a (new) – having regard to its resolution of 13 March 2012 on equality between women and men (Texts adopted, P7_TA(2012)0069)
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Maintains that policies aimed at promoting work-life balance put women in a better position to
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls on the Member States to encourage full integration, greater involvement and active participation of older women in social life;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls for concrete and effective measures, such as adoption of the directive of equal treatment, to tackle multi-discrimination often faced by older women;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Stresses the importance of cultural and educational facilities for the elderly;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Supports initiatives to achieve more effective prevention of illnesses and improvement of health among the elderly and to help them remain independent;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Commission and the Council to publish a report on the measures taken by Member States in support of active ageing and on their impact with a view to identifying best practice and determining what action might be taken in the future at European level;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to create a more positive attitude towards ageing as well as raising EU citizens' awareness of ageing issues and its real effects, something which has been one of the main messages of the year 2012 as a year of active ageing and intergenerational solidarity;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Sees adopting a life course approach, in which the interconnections of ageing and gender are taken into account, as the way forward in ageing policies;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 (new) Calls on Member States to devote attention to older women immigrants, who suffer from harsh economic and social conditions and often encounter difficulties in gaining access to social protection measures and health care services; considers that particular attention should be devoted to individual women, widows and separated women whose quality of life and health have been affected as a result; (Explanation: older people from ethnic minorities are at greater risk of being overlooked and not receiving assistance. At the same time, not enough attention has been paid to genetic conditions from which immigrants suffer, for example anaemia). In addition, factors such as harsh working and living conditions, living in a culturally unfamiliar society and associated experiences affect both their physical and their mental health.)
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Points out that climate change affects health directly through e.g. changing weather patterns (more intense and frequent extreme events) and indirectly through changes in water, air, food quality and quantity, ecosystems, agriculture, livelihoods and infrastructure, calls on the Council, the Commission and the Member States to increase all its efforts to stop climate change and to move towards an healthier and ecological transformation of society
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas the European Union promotes human dignity and recognises not only that every person is entitled to have access to preventive health care and medical treatment,
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to fully recognise the gender dimension in health as an essential part in EU health policies and national health policies;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Calls on the Commission to publish a study on the impact of the financial and economic crisis on older women, in particular with regard to their access to preventive and curative healthcare;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Calls upon the Member States to strike a fine balance between implementing drastic measures to fight the financial and economic crisis and providing sufficient and adequate funding for health and social care to help manage the demographic trend of an ageing population;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Calls on the Commission to publish an assessment of the impact of the economic and financial crisis on elderly women, focusing on access to preventive health care and treatment;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Calls on the Commission to publish an assessment of the impact of the world financial and economic crisis on elderly women, focusing on access to preventive health care and treatment;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Notes that comprehensive and in- depth strategies in the health sector require the cooperation of governments, healthcare professionals, non- governmental organisations, public health organisations, organisations representing patients, the mass media and other parties concerned with healthy ageing;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Acknowledges the necessity to promote a more age-friendly European Union in order to ensure active and healthy ageing for all, including older women;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Reiterates the need to build and promote a European Union more sensitive to the needs and interests of elderly women and men and for gender mainstreaming with regard to all information and awareness measures and policies;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Takes the view that priority must be given to the protection of elderly from abuse, mis-treatment, neglect and exploitation, whether intentional and deliberate or resulting from carelessness;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Points out that
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The Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality adopted an own-initiative report by Roberta ANGELILLI (EPP, IT) on the prevention of age-related diseases of women. Although women have a longer life expectancy at birth than men (82.4 years for women as opposed to 76.4 years for men), Members note that the gap in healthy life expectancy is more narrow being 61.7 years for men and 62.6 years for women. They have therefore need of sufficient access to health care and home help to enable them to enjoy equal rights and live independent lives. Members note that women often choose flexible home-based, part-time, temporary or atypical employment, thereby compromising their career advancement, with major consequences in terms of their pension contributions, making them particularly vulnerable to situations of insecurity and poverty. Concrete and effective measures, such as the adoption of the Directive on equal treatment, are called for with a view to combating the multiple forms of discrimination faced by older women. To favour active ageing in good health, Members recommend:
Members call for the publication of an assessment of the impact of the economic and financial crisis on elderly women, focusing on access to preventive health care and treatment. They note that public spending on health accounts for 7.8 % of EU GDP and that, because of population ageing, expenditure on long- and short-term assistance is predicted to rise by 3 % by 2060. They call upon the Member States to strike a fine balance between implementing drastic measures to fight the financial and economic crisis and providing sufficient and adequate funding for health and social care. They also call on the Commission and the Member States to fully recognise the gender dimension in health as an essential part in EU health policies and national health policies. Age-related illnesses: Members point out that many disorders are often underestimated where women are concerned, for example, heart diseases which are considered to be a male problem (whereas cardiovascular diseases kill more than two million people a year in the Member States, accounting for 42 % of all deaths in the EU and are the cause of 45 % of deaths among women compared with 38 % among men). Measures aimed at raising awareness among women of the risk factors involved in cardiovascular diseases are required. Members also mention the problem of increased alcohol consumption among older women in Europe, and the rising number of female smokers. They call on the Member States and the Commission to adopt programmes to discourage smoking, aimed especially at young women (the WHO estimates that the percentage of female smokers in Europe will increase from the present 12 % to roughly 20 % by 2025). The Commission should also encourage initiatives to improve information on the risks associated with smoking and drinking and on the benefits of a proper diet and sufficient exercise, these being ways to prevent obesity, high blood pressure, and the related complications. Other awareness programmes should be initiated in order to better inform the public about diseases of the bones and joints and Alzheimer’s disease which affects about 1 person in 20 over 65, 1 in 5 over 80 and 1 in 3 over 90. A holistic and gender-sensitive approach to Alzheimer's disease and other dementias is called for. Members also call on the Commission to prepare:
Access to health services: Members call on the Member States to support the initiatives needed to help older women access medical and health services, including women living far from larger centres and in areas difficult to access. They call on the Member States to further develop eHealth services and gender-sensitive ambient-assisted living solutions in order to promote independent living at home, and to make health services more efficient and accessible for older women who are isolated. In particular, Members call for:
Research and prevention: Members note wit concern EU research results published in April 2011 showing that some 28% of women aged 60 years or older have been mistreated in the last 12 months. They take the view that priority must be given to the protection of the elderly from abuse, mistreatment, neglect and exploitation, whether intentional and deliberate or resulting from carelessness. They call on the Member States to strengthen their actions to prevent elder abuse at home and in institutions. In regard to research, they call for the development, in the context of Horizon 2020, of a strategic plan of research into health care for women over the next decade and the creation of a women's health research institute to ensure implementation thereof. In respect of prevention, Members call on the Council, the Commission and the Member States, each at their own level, to:
Members also call on the Commission to:
Regretting the fact that 97 % of health budgets is earmarked for the treatment of non-communicable diseases and only 3 % for investment in prevention, Member States are called on to increase their health budget to include prevention activities. They are also invited to:
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The Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality adopted an own-initiative report by Roberta ANGELILLI (EPP, IT) on the prevention of age-related diseases of women. Although women have a longer life expectancy at birth than men (82.4 years for women as opposed to 76.4 years for men), Members note that the gap in healthy life expectancy is more narrow being 61.7 years for men and 62.6 years for women. They have therefore need of sufficient access to health care and home help to enable them to enjoy equal rights and live independent lives. Members note that women often choose flexible home-based, part-time, temporary or atypical employment, thereby compromising their career advancement, with major consequences in terms of their pension contributions, making them particularly vulnerable to situations of insecurity and poverty. Concrete and effective measures, such as the adoption of the Directive on equal treatment, are called for with a view to combating the multiple forms of discrimination faced by older women. To favour active ageing in good health, Members recommend:
Members call for the publication of an assessment of the impact of the economic and financial crisis on elderly women, focusing on access to preventive health care and treatment. They note that public spending on health accounts for 7.8 % of EU GDP and that, because of population ageing, expenditure on long- and short-term assistance is predicted to rise by 3 % by 2060. They call upon the Member States to strike a fine balance between implementing drastic measures to fight the financial and economic crisis and providing sufficient and adequate funding for health and social care. They also call on the Commission and the Member States to fully recognise the gender dimension in health as an essential part in EU health policies and national health policies. Age-related illnesses: Members point out that many disorders are often underestimated where women are concerned, for example, heart diseases which are considered to be a male problem (whereas cardiovascular diseases kill more than two million people a year in the Member States, accounting for 42 % of all deaths in the EU and are the cause of 45 % of deaths among women compared with 38 % among men). Measures aimed at raising awareness among women of the risk factors involved in cardiovascular diseases are required. Members also mention the problem of increased alcohol consumption among older women in Europe, and the rising number of female smokers. They call on the Member States and the Commission to adopt programmes to discourage smoking, aimed especially at young women (the WHO estimates that the percentage of female smokers in Europe will increase from the present 12 % to roughly 20 % by 2025). The Commission should also encourage initiatives to improve information on the risks associated with smoking and drinking and on the benefits of a proper diet and sufficient exercise, these being ways to prevent obesity, high blood pressure, and the related complications. Other awareness programmes should be initiated in order to better inform the public about diseases of the bones and joints and Alzheimer’s disease which affects about 1 person in 20 over 65, 1 in 5 over 80 and 1 in 3 over 90. A holistic and gender-sensitive approach to Alzheimer's disease and other dementias is called for. Members also call on the Commission to prepare:
Access to health services: Members call on the Member States to support the initiatives needed to help older women access medical and health services, including women living far from larger centres and in areas difficult to access. They call on the Member States to further develop eHealth services and gender-sensitive ambient-assisted living solutions in order to promote independent living at home, and to make health services more efficient and accessible for older women who are isolated. In particular, Members call for:
Research and prevention: Members note wit concern EU research results published in April 2011 showing that some 28% of women aged 60 years or older have been mistreated in the last 12 months. They take the view that priority must be given to the protection of the elderly from abuse, mistreatment, neglect and exploitation, whether intentional and deliberate or resulting from carelessness. They call on the Member States to strengthen their actions to prevent elder abuse at home and in institutions. In regard to research, they call for the development, in the context of Horizon 2020, of a strategic plan of research into health care for women over the next decade and the creation of a women's health research institute to ensure implementation thereof. In respect of prevention, Members call on the Council, the Commission and the Member States, each at their own level, to:
Members also call on the Commission to:
Regretting the fact that 97 % of health budgets is earmarked for the treatment of non-communicable diseases and only 3 % for investment in prevention, Member States are called on to increase their health budget to include prevention activities. They are also invited to:
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