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Icade: reconciling ageing of the population and the housing environment
Real estate - 25 January 2012
Icade, a Caisse des Dépôts subsidiary and a major player on the real estate market, entered a research process on problems connected to the ageing. In this framework, a book was published by La Documentation Française and a day of debates was held in the Senate on 11 January.
The book entitled “Les défis territoriaux face au vieillissement” (the local and regional challenges of ageing) is published by Documentation française under the direction of Jean-Philippe Viriot Durandal, Christian Pihet and Pierre-Marie Chapon. In France, as in most European and North American democracies, government policies must come to terms with population ageing as a fundamental given in the socio-demographic context of the decades ahead.
The book offers a range of thoughts on adapting the physical and social environment to population ageing. Its particular value lies in the multidisciplinary nature of the points of view from which it approaches living spaces. The authors offer a series of original thoughts on local and regional territories based on the spatial and social practices of the elderly. They also conduct a critical examination of the interactions, some more successful than others, between this section of the public and the political, administrative, social and economic interfaces supposed to meet their needs. In its third and final section, the work calls for constructive dialogue, providing an original opening for debate with public and private sector operators most closely concerned with the organisation of living spaces, networks and territories for the elderly.
In conjunction with the non-profit Association pour l’Innovation et la Longévité (Apil), Icade’s medical and social division organised a colloquium, held in the Senate building on 11 January, about “Adapted living spaces, living environment and extreme age”. Edward Arkwright, Director of Strategies, Sustainability and Studies at Caisse des Dépôts, spoke at the roundtable on “The social, political and economic issues of adapted living spaces”.
Several major innovations on the field of adapted living spaces were presented: the Rhône + Vivre chez soi Charter for living at home (winner of the Vivre ensemble aujourd'hui et demain competition), the “Mon village” experiment in the Deux-Sèvres department or the Icade eco-district project in Chevilly Larue.
