Question 10758 — elderly people

Summary

Mrs. Claire Marais-Beuil alerts the Minister of Health, Families, Autonomy and People with Disabilities to the isolation and suicide of the elderly. In September 2025 the Petits Frères des Pauvres association published its loneliness and isolation barometer “When we are over 60 in France in 2025”; the main data concerns the increase in the isolation of elderly people, whether it is isolation from the family circle (28% in 2024 versus 22% in 2017), friendly (40% in 2024 versus 28% in 2017), neighborhood (24% in 2024 versus 21% in 2017) or associative networks (66% in 2024 versus 55% in 2017). On October 10, 2025, Public Health France published its bulletin “Annual surveillance of suicidal behavior”, in which it is indicated that people aged 65 and over have the highest rate of deaths by suicide (37 per 100,000 men, 9 per 100 000 women), this rate is higher for people aged 85 and over (76 per 100,000 men aged 65 and over, 12 per 100,000 among women), for men aged over 85 the rate is therefore 7 times higher. Society is faced with an increase in the discomfort of elderly people who feel forgotten within society; among the factors of suicide among people aged over 85 there is depression, isolation and then loss of autonomy. Consequently, she asks him to kindly take stock of the situation, to take stock of the Old Age plan and to inform him of additional measures in order to obtain better support for seniors.

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