Blue Week 2022: October 3 to 9, let's change our perspective on seniors!

Blue Week Events

These seven days are a good opportunity to raise public awareness of the contribution of pensioners to economic, social and cultural life, the concerns and difficulties faced by older people, and the achievements and projects of associations. It is also an opportunity for actors working with seniors to organize public events that promote intergenerational ties.

Every year, a competition is held to award the most outstanding actions organized at the level of a department, canton, commune or establishment.

The Chronos Prize for Literature, also a partner of Blue Week, is helping to change the way young people look at old age. The members of the jury may be pupils from primary school to high school, young people attending libraries and leisure centers. All the albums and novels selected for this award concern the life course, memories, relationships between generations, old age and death, family secrets or even the transmission of knowledge.

Tools and actions available to take action on a daily basis 

Breaking the isolation of the elderly: this initiatives portal lists all the actions and tools available throughout the territory to help combat the isolation of the elderly (maintaining the link, helping as a neighbor, volunteering, tools for associations).

Resources for basic needs of older people and their carers are available.

Creators of initiatives against isolation of older people can share their actions on this issue. form.

Monalisa: this portal allows you to join a team of volunteers near you that addresses the social isolation of seniors. The Monalisa network brings together more than 300 committed citizen teams.

Isolation: What resources can be mobilized? : the Ministry of Solidarity and Health lists the different structures to which persons identified as being isolated may be referred.