6th European Patients' Rights Day - T. Petrangolini

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Elderly participation inEuropean Health

policy and PatientsRights

Teresa PetrangoliniACN Director


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The aim of the Conference: Activeageing and patients rights perspective

ageing patients must be considered asessential and responsible stakeholders: they cancontribute to overcome the health systems crisis

ageing patients not as a problem to dealwith but as active participants in the problemsolving


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A required connection: Active ageingand patients rights perspective

The 6European Patients Rights Day isdedicated to elderly participation because:

- patients rights, especially for elderpeople, are at risk

- the ongoing global economic crisis ischallenging the social European model


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The recent financial crisis together with publicexpenditure policies make more and more urgentthe setting up of a reform.

The real looming danger is that social and healthexpenditure could be considered as a cost to becut down and that the equity principle could beconverted into a questionable criteria


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European Charter of Patients Rights

1. Right to PreventiveMeasures

2. Right of Access3. Right to Information4. Right to Consent5. Right to Free Choice6. Right to Privacy andConfidentiality7. Right to Respect ofPatients Time

8. Right to the Observanceof Quality Standards

9. Right to Safety10. Right to Innovation11. Right to AvoidUnnecessary Suffering and

Pain12. Right to PersonalizedTreatment13. Right to Complain14. Right to Compensation


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Active ageing to support patients rightsprotection

Promote an empowered ageing patient,capable of interacting appropriately withservices and institutions, with a specialattention on the sustainability andeffectiveness of social and health caresystems


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The active citizens rightslinked the rights of civic association (art. 12, section 1, Charter

of fundamental rights)

the right to perform general interestactivities

the right to carry out advocacy activities

the right to participate in policy-making

(European Charter of Patients Rights).;.


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The European Year for Active Ageing and Solidaritybetween Generations: objectives

to raise general awareness of the value of active

ageing and to ensure a prominent position in thepolitical agenda; to stimulate debate, to exchange information, todevelop mutual learning , to identify and disseminategood practices and to encourage cooperation and

synergies to develop innovative solutions, policies and longterm strategies with the involvement of civil society to combat age discrimination and stereotypes

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Europe 2020:a 10-year strategy proposedby the EC (3 March 2010) for reviving theeconomy of the European Union

"smart, sustainable, inclusive growth the success of the Europe 2020 dependson the involvement of all sections ofsociety, non governmental organizationsand individuals too Best practice, benchmarking, networkingactivities


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These strategies and these slogans would

be empty words without the active presenceof elderly citizens and without theirexperiences

The Conference aim is to present and toshare the good practices collected: 40 in18th European countries


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the existence of an informed and competentcitizenship who is able to intervene in eachphase of the public policies to facilitate better

decisions, reduces the wastage, increases theappropriate use of service, produces innovativesolutions;

the existence of a wide reserve of elderlypopulation in good health, often with goodgeneral knowledge and generally available forvoluntary job.


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Workshops and final recommendations

Share the BP information and suggestions to

plan and support a new welfare policy atEuropean, national and local level, focused on:Ageing empowerment and inclusion Citizens participation improvement democratization and transparency of publicinstitutions decrease of wastage and privileges combining budgetary needs, universality of rights,

prevention and care strategic goals.


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The greatest empowerment isrealized when, through dialogue,we advance from a shared

awareness and concern about adifficult situation to a shared pledgeor vow to achieve its resolution

(Daisaku Ikeda)

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