[Seniors' precariousness, social factors hindering access to care]

The precarity of the elderly is a threat that becomes more and more consistent when diseases, disabilities and handicaps become established. Access to care becomes an imperative. The difficulties of implementing palliative and support measures lead to growing precariousness. Their defects have serious consequences for the quality of life of the elderly, and disturb them in the intersubjective and subjective domains, particularly on the most vulnerable person's affects. We analyze in this paper the mechanisms underlying precariousness, and we propose preventive and palliative measures using semiotic analysis.