Question 228 — people with disabilities

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Mr. Arnaud Viala questions the Secretary of State, attached to the Prime Minister, responsible for disabled people, on the care of disabled people. Concerns about the needs of people with disabilities have still not been taken into account within French society. Handicap care is increasingly a territorial concern, including in the less obviously favored areas, which are committed to keeping the most vulnerable populations close to home. Much is being done today to improve the condition of the elderly. Territories need national solidarity to be better exercised to support them in better disability care, and also to address the issue of aging people with disabilities. Currently, the possibility of access care remains too often subject to the geographical position of the individual. Certain regions of France are completely neglected, health centers lack funding and a severe lack of medical staff. The lack of healthcare infrastructure, especially in rural areas, pushes these people to sometimes travel long distances in order to benefit from healthcare, and leaves residents, often the most vulnerable, on the margins of society and in deep distress. Disability, today in France, is too often approached solely from the angle of material arrangements, through regulations and standards that are often extremely difficult to implement in practice, and insufficiently from the angle of the human support resources to be provided. It is obvious that support professions must be valued. These are necessary to be able to provide quality service, with well-trained and competent staff. More precisely, it is home support services that are mainly necessary in rural areas where isolation can be felt among people suffering from a disability. Each person must be able to live peacefully and in the best conditions. The presidential and legislative campaigns could have been an opportunity for candidates to present a range of their innovative ideas with regard to the situation of the disabled, both physical and mental. Unfortunately, the situation of disabled people was mentioned too marginally, no lasting solution was proposed during these campaigns concerning the care of people with disabilities. Yet millions of people are affected. He asks him what measures count take the Government to ensure quality reception, care and support for disabled people in order to guarantee them and their families decent and equal support throughout the territory.

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