MOBISENIOR.FR, THE AWARD-WINNING AUTOMOBILE CLUB ASSOCIATION WEBSITE

Mobisenior.fr, the internet site dedicated to the mobility of seniors, created by FIA Member Club Automobile Club Affiliation (ACA), gained the French 2022 Road Protection Innovation Award in the “Promotion of Accountable Conduct” class.

The Innovation Award is a road security initiative led by the French Sécurité routière that supports and benefits ground breaking items or services that lead to enhancing highway protection. By labelling them, it aims to aid their distribution and access to a broad viewers.

This award recognises two decades of tricky operate by the ACA team, in collaboration with its partners (Sécurité routière, Crédit Mutuel, Essilor, Mobilité Mutuelle) and the FIA, to make mobisenior.fr a one of a kind useful resource in France, relying on an original approach mixing advocacy, public plan, and organization. 

“We are happy and joyful that mobisenior.fr has been rewarded. This is an ground breaking and special task focused to a cause that is expensive to us and which constitutes a real obstacle for culture: the mobility of our seniors. This award recognises the fully commited do the job of the groups of the Automobile Club Association and its associates,” declared ACA President Didier Bollecker. 

Without a doubt, in France, a lot more than just one particular person in five is aged 65 or in excess of. This figure has been expanding for 30 several years, just like the need for adapted mobility for seniors. To give men and women the means to age in fantastic conditions and keep away from isolation, steps need to be taken to permit them to stay unbiased and autonomous. Mobility is fantastic for seniors’ physical and psychological health.

The mobisenior.fr site was made to offer authentic guidance to empower seniors to sustain their mobility for as very long as probable and in entire security. It gathers totally free and interactive electronic instruments, such as cognitive self-evaluation testing, as very well as information and functional advice to aid seniors and their cherished ones foresee, evaluate and adapt their mobility requires.

Released in November 2020, mobisenior.fr also gives the possibility to sign up and participate in mobility workshops for seniors.  “Our ambition is to carry on to enrich mobisenior.fr, which is a no cost internet site obtainable to all (folks, cities, communities, and so forth.) and which aims to serve the collective desire and to encourage risk-free and accessible mobility for our seniors. It also highlights the curiosity of our mobility workshops, which we have been deploying for various several years now, and which are presented via our mobisenior.fr web site,” additional ACA Handling Director Vincent Clévenot. 

Guaranteeing accessibility and preserving the mobility of seniors have been critical matters of concern for the FIA Neighborhood for many years now and the growth of a Self-Evaluation Resource for Aged Drivers by the Reial Automòbil Club de Catalunya (RACC), with the help of the FIA Sustainable Mobility Programme and the FIA Mobility Coverage Commission, served as a setting up level for the ACA undertaking.