Droit au risque ou prise de risque ? Quelle liberté reste-t-il aux aînés en temps de COVID ?

Life is risk taking! And as ageing is always living, ageing is also about taking risks. However, the notion of risk seems to be less and less accepted for supposedly frail and vulnerable elders, more often from the point of view of professional or familiar third parties than for the elderly themselves. The COVID-19 epidemic has reinforced and justified different health and safety approaches around the elderly. What may be legitimate in terms of public health and societal choices, has at the same time been able to alter the possibilities of choosing, of deciding for themselves and of consequently affect the autonomy of elders. However, a right to risk remains a freedom specific to everyone, even the elderly, inalienable by the sole invocation of security. Between the desire to protect and excess of attention, a permanent adjustment of the offers and especially the taking into account of the voices of the elders remains essential.