Domani l'Istat presenterà il suo rapporto annuale, ma sugli anziani sono stati anticipati alcuni dati, presented in Rome at the convention Federanziani. Writes, the Ansa news agency: since 1980 the presence of the elderly in the Italian population has grown enormously: the over sixty increased by 50%, reaching a population of 12 million units in 2006, compared to 8.5 million 25 years ago. Most of them, approximately 45 percent, he feels healthy. "Older people are an important part of our society - said Robert Messina, president of Federanziani - but they feel useless, humiliated and exploited. There is no longer a culture of family and solidarity between generations. Italy is last among developed countries to focus on pain therapy, and almost two million older people with injuries are difficult to spend up to € 250 per month for medical care. " Fortunately, the health of the elderly Italian are discrete, since 45% of our own grandparents feel healthy. However, the percentage drops significantly with each passing year, reaching 25 percent in the over 75. According to data presented about 76.5% has only one disease and only 34.6% have a chronic health. Among the most prevalent disease is osteoarthritis or arthritis (18.3%) and hypertension (14.2%). The cancer is less fear and in 2006 there was a decrease in deaths from this disease, at 1, 5% for men and 0.3% for women. But the controls osteporosi and periodicals for mammography for women older than 40 are not yet an established practice. "We put the elderly - said Messina - at the heart of programming and care of the national community. For this we have a program of ten applications, including the increase of integrated home care services, the establishment of a voucher for the specialist services that allow access to private hospitals, the total reimbursement of dressings for wounds and difficult informed consent for antipsychotic medication. "
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