Pauvreté : le Secours catholique alerte sur les nouveaux pauvres seniorsPauvreté : le Secours catholique alerte sur les nouveaux pauvres seniors
Vieillir sans pouvoir vivre 🇬🇧 In brief Senior poverty: when old age becomes a new social fragility In France, a growing number of senior citizens and older workers are confronted with precariousness, broken professional careers, insufficient pensions and expensive housing. The Secours Catholique-Caritas France warns that poverty in old age is often the final consequence of difficulties accumulated during many years. This situation interrogates not only the French social model, but also our conception of human dignity. Catholic social doctrine recalls that economic organisation must remain at the service of the person, especially of the most fragile. Solidarity, subsidiarity and the common good therefore invite society to guarantee that ageing does not signify falling into abandonment or material misery. ✝️ Le fait du jour Vieillir devait autrefois signifier sortir progressivement de la précarité. Pour une partie croissante des Français, l’âge devient au contraire le moment où ...