Activities of Kartika Tamara LIOTARD related to 2009/2205(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT Report on the role of women in an ageing society PDF (170 KB) DOC (105 KB)
Amendments (9)
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
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2. Endorses the Commission’s focus on the strategy decided by the Stockholm European Council in 200112 as a long-term guide to dealing with the challenges and possibilities that ageing creates in societies; endorses also the Communication’s proposal that a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach should be taken to ageing as well as to creating opportunities, especially in the field of markets for products and services geared to the needs of older people; calls on the Commission to pay special attention to the protection of older people’s consumers rights since they are too often mislead or taken advantage of;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
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4. Sees adopting a life course approach, in which the interconnections of ageing and gender are taken into account, as the way forward in ageing policies; sees also adopting an age and gender approach in which age- and gender mainstreaming becomes an indispensible method and instrument in policy-making in all relevant fields (economic, social, employment, public health, food safety, consumers rights, digital agenda, rural and urban development, and so on), as the way forward in creating more social inclusion and social cohesion;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
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6. Recogniszes that age discrimination must also be tackled with more effective judicial measures and with more accessible procedures, especially in cases of discrimination in working life where specific legislation exists and where support for the individual and investigation of the circumstances are essential;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
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14. Calls for a rights-based approach to be taken in order to enable older people to play an active role when decisions are made on the choice and the design of the care and social services provided for them; calls also for a demands-based approach to be implemented in regard to the provision of any type of care services in order to enable older people to live independently for as long as they wish;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
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17. Points out that the quality of care shall be ensured in order to improve the quality of old age and alsolife in old age, in order to enable older people to live independently for as long as they wish, and in order to avoid the physical, psychological and economic abuse that eolderly people often suffer from; considers that Members States should ensure that those employed as carers of older people in the public and private sectors receive trainingcare providers in the public and private sector as well as informal care providers, which are mainly women and older women, receive the necessary training, support, compensation and social protection;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
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19. Asks that a gender perspective be used in the medical and pharmaceutical field in order to make precise diagnoses and to give the needed care; asks that tools forprovide for the needed, appropriate treatment and care; asks that tools for prevention, early detection, and diagnosis not be restricted solely because of a patient’s age or gender, so that screening for breast-cancer, cervical cancer, lung cancer, and colorectal- cancer as well as cardiovascular screening and treatments, for example, should be available to elderly women;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
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20. Asks that the gender and age perspective be used in recommendations concerning nutrition; asks also that the gender and age perspective be used in recommendations concerning food safety issues such as food labelling, health claims, REACH regulation and novel foods;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
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23. Asks the Commission to update and strengthen monitoring mechanisms regarding the implementation of fundamental rights issues by the end of 2012; calls also for increased awareness of these, often under-used, mechanisms as older women are especially unaware ofinformed about their rights;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
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24. Affirms that every EU citizen must have athe right to adequate social and health services at a reasonable price; calls on the Commission to put forward a directive on basic services, which would take national conditions into consideration; emphasises that older women are especially vulnerable and invites the Commission to consider a system where all European citizens are granted the right to a basic income that is dependent on the Member State’s standard of living, appropriate, and affordable social services and benefits, health care services and other care services;