115. Notes that there is considerable evidence of discrimination against older people in health care; points out that older patients are less likely than younger patients to receive all of the necessary treatments they require due to discrimination on the basis of their age alone; considers that such differential medical treatment and care can have significant effects on the health outcomes of older people;

- (PL) Mr President, the main healthcare challenges facing us today are improving the health of older people, preparing to deal with geriatric diseases in relation to the ageing population, universal access to a proper level of healthcare, ensuring financial stability for national healthcare systems, giving particular attention to access to healthcare for disabled people, children, the elderly, and those from poorer families, guaranteeing the rights of the patient in cross-border healthcare, establishing cross-border electronic interoperability for medical records, while at the same time ensuring protection for ...[+++]personal data and the provision of good working conditions for employees in the healthcare sector.

The Commission must therefore support appropriate measures to improve the health of older people, active people and children, so as to help the population become more productive and age in good health.

Actions Measures to promote the health of older people and the workforce and actions on children's and young people's health (Commission) Development and delivery of actions on tobacco, nutrition, alcohol, mental health and other broader environmental and socioeconomic factors affecting health (Commission, Member States) New Guidelines on Cancer screening and a Communication on European Action in the Field of Rare Diseases (Commission) Follow up of the Communication on organ donation and transplantation[26] (Commission) |

provisions should be made for organising, at national and Community level, training and information campaigns for operators and prevention and promotion campaigns in the field of health, such as on age-related macular degeneration, including recognising that the future health of older people requires a lifelong approach and educating young people as to the consequences of their actions in later life,

provisions should be made for organising, at national and Community level, training and information campaigns for operators and prevention and promotion campaigns in the field of health, such as on age-related macular degeneration, including recognising that the future health of older people requires a lifelong approach and educating young people as to the consequences of their actions in later life;