25 Amendments of Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN related to 2012/2129(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 22 a (new)
Citation 22 a (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 19 January 2011 on a European initiative on Alzheimer's disease and other dementias (2010/2084(INI))
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas population ageing is one of the main challenges facingthe ageing of the population is a trend in whole Europe; whereas there are more than 87 million people over 65 in the EU (17.4% of the total population) and whereas, according to projections, their number in 2060 will exceed 150 million (roughly 30%);
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas women have a longer life expectancy than men (82.4 years as opposed to 76.4); whereas the gap in healthy life expectancy is more narrow being 61.7 years for men and 62.6 years for women;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas, in order to achieve work-life balance, women, in addition to the unpaid work of looking after their home and their family, often opt, or are forced to opt, for part-time, intermittent, or atypical work, a fact duly reflected in the lower pension contributions that they manage to accumulate;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the generation of women +50, often described as the "sandwich generation" or as "working daughters and working mothers", tend to have fewer possibilities to take care of their own health as they often take care of their parents and their grand children;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas older women as a disadvantaged group often face multiple discrimination due to e.g. their age, gender and ethnic background;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas, due to longer life expectance and gender sensitivity of certain diseases, women are affected to a greater extent by chronic and disabling diseases and correspondingly more vulnerable to deterioration in their quality of life;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O a (new)
Recital O a (new)
Oa. whereas stigma and lack of awareness about neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia are experienced both by the people with dementia and their informal carers, access to early diagnosis is often delayed and consequently treatment outcome is poor;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital U a (new)
Recital U a (new)
Ua. whereas preventive measures need to be priority in health care, with the special attention to disadvantaged groups;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital U b (new)
Recital U b (new)
Ub. whereas gender sensitivity of diseases and medicines is currently not sufficiently studied clinical trials being run mostly on men of younger age;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital W
Recital W
W. whereas women make greater use of medicines and herbal remedies, with the consequentof which the impacts need more research in order to minimise the risks of interaction;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Maintains that policies aimed at promoting work-life balance put women in a better position to tackleperform active ageing, and therefore calls on the Member States to intensify their efforts in that direction;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls for concrete and effective measures, such as adoption of the directive of equal treatment, to tackle multi-discrimination often faced by older women;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to create a more positive attitude towards ageing as well as raising EU citizens' awareness of ageing issues and its real effects, something which has been one of the main messages of the year 2012 as a year of active ageing and intergenerational solidarity;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. 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;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls upon the Member States to strike a fine balance between implementing drastic measures to fight the financial and economic crisis and providing sufficient and adequate funding for health and social care to help manage the demographic trend of an ageing population;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the European Commission to initiate an EU action plan on Non- Communicable Diseases as a follow-up to the outcomes of the UN Summit on Non- Communicable Diseases in September 2011 and the public consultation process launched by the Commission in March- April 2012;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls upon the Member States to prioritise actions in the field of memory disabling diseases, such as dementia, and increase their efforts in medical and social research in memory disabling diseases, such as dementia, to increase the quality of life of people with the disease and their carers, ensure the sustainability of the health and care services and boost growth at European level;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Calls for the Member States to urgently create national plans and strategies for Alzheimer's diseases if they haven't yet done so;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Member States to support the initiatives needed to help older women to gain access to medical and health services, regardless of their personal economic circumstances, laying emphasis on individualised assistance, including home carthe support for the longest possible period of care at home;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. 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;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Maintains that increasing amount of medical and paramedical personnel have to be highly trained and prepared to adopt an approach which, given the gender- and age-specific factors involved, should allow for the special psychological, interpersonal, and information needs of older women;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls on the Commission to launch specific awareness campaigns focusing on correctgender and age sensitive recommendations concerning nutrition and the importance of physical exercise, given that these can help reduce the incidence of heart and circulatory disorders, osteoporosis, and some types of cancer;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, as part of preventive measures, to widen the scope of diseases and to lower the age limit for screening programmes, at least in countries with a higher incidence of disease and in cases where patients' family history puts them particularly at risk, and also to include older women in such programmes, bearing in mind their longer life expectancy;