Calabria is the faithful mirror of a South that is imposing itself at the registry between increasingly empty cradlesessential services not up to par, escape of young people and aging of those who have chosen to stay. A land that seems to drag his punishment towards a timeless future. The numbers of demographic winter already in progress become indicators of increasingly gray future scenarios. The long -term demographic forecasts of Istat indicate a strengthening of trends to depopulation of the internal areas, economically less attractive, and to aging. In the past months, interviewed by the Gazzetta, the former president of the INPS, Pasquale Tridico (and current MEP M5S), had urged structural interventions in the South starting with an effective health service, capable of giving certain answers in a short time, from An efficient roads, from trains that travel on time, from the spread of nursery schools and schools.
Need for need
The scenario that will be combined in the future has been imagined, in recent days, in the report at domestic work 2023, by the “Domina” association (families of domestic employers), in collaboration with the “Leone Moressa” Foundation, on INPS data . Demographic forecasts reveal how the number of carers is intended to increase with the increase in the age of the population. In 2050 in Calabria there will be 204 thousand elderly people (ultraottanenteni) compared to only 152 thousand between children and young people (aged between 0 and 14 years). The elderly component, which compared to 2023 will increase by 58.0%, will therefore be predominant compared to the childish one (13.8%of the population against 10.3%). Therefore, inevitably we will have to face new needs.
The current trend
Estimates in Calabria define the overall induced in about 30 thousand subjects. The army of regular, according to the data of the 2024 ratio (on 2023 data), consists of 11,350 employees with lots of pay and contributions paid. Moreover, these are the guardian angels of suffering and indispensable reinforcements to keep the houses in order. Men and women dedicate themselves to profession, day and night, to people in difficulty and household chores. They take care of every space, of each object, and assist elderly but also people with walking difficulties or, in any case, not self -sufficient. In Calabria they would be employed (with regular employment contract) 6,024 housekeepers (3.3 per thousand inhabitants) and 5,326 carers (4.1 per thousand inhabitants). Therefore, the duties are prevalent, but the carers still count for 46.9%. The domestic employers are 11,426 decreased compared to 2022 (-12.1%). The domestic sphere involves 1.2% of the population. In Calabria, one out of 10 domestic worker is a relative or spouse of the austest with a relatively young age: 48.7 years. The collaborators of Italian nationality are the majority (44.3%), while East Europe represents 27.1% of the audience while Asia represents 19.3% of the servants. Women’s workers are 83.9% of the total.