ConCretely enhanCing the role of elderly through CapaCitating health Care

Abstract

This paper questions the signification of reinforcing the active role of elderly
between societal injunction to feel responsible of the costs to the collectivity and
the freedom to choose one’s way of life and having the means to realize it. It
describes two experiences in two Brussels communes of a model of coconstruction with the elderly of a project to live in one’s own home, to reinforce
the active roles of persons. We want to illustrate the difficulty of such an approach
in Belgium, separating the organization and the financing of medical and social
care, that does not foster the accompanying and the active role of elderly. The
conflict of interest between the different actors is not allowing the proper
multidisciplinary approach to empower and allow the maintenance of elderly
capability of choice and well being.