Elderly

by Tom Goodwin, Feb 12, 2017 Living in New York and working in advertising I rarely see people over the age of fifty. My elders seem to be a secret population — a growing, sizable, increasingly healthy and wealthy group — that I’m never exposed to, let alone have the pleasure of working alongside. This…

By Bloomberg News, Feb 11, 2017 THE world’s working-age population is shrinking faster than expected, leaving fewer people to support a growing number of seniors, according to the Bloomberg Sunset Index.

by Nick Bunker, Policy Analyst, Washington Center for Equitable, Jan. 31, 2017 The world’s population is getting older. The share of the global population that is more than 50 years old is becoming larger and larger, presenting several economic challenges, the most troubling being the possibility of much slower economic growth. Several economists have raised…

Andreas Irmen and Anastasia Litina, Jan. 18, 2017 https://hbr.org/2017/01/what-a-study-of-33-countries-found-about-aging-populations-and-innovation?utm_campaign=hbr&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social The populations of almost all Western countries are getting older, as the Baby Boomers, born in the 1950s and 1960s, live longer and have fewer children than previous generations. Population aging of this dimension is possibly unique in world history. No surprise, then, that it poses…

http://www.ozy.com/presidential-daily-brief/pdb-69505?utm_source=pdb&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=05072016&variable=52af57bdb25c500ad0fe628fd8cf4052#article69493 Is society giving them the old heave-ho? A multimedia project examines the hopes and fears of the largest generation of senior citizens the world has ever known — through the eyes of elders from 10 countries on six continents. They share feelings of being overlooked and undervalued by younger generations while worrying about financing…

By Letty Jacinto-Lopez (The Philippine Star), November 29, 2016 An aging father asked his adult son, “What is that sound I hear coming from that tall acacia tree?” The son responded, “Oh! Just a tiny bird, Dad.” The father paused but then asked again, and again, and again. Each time the son responded, the tone…

Philippine Daily Inquirer, http://opinion.inquirer.net/97831/getting-old/amp When did they turn the corner into the sunset of their lives? One moment they were in their prime, and the next they had become frail, softer in their voice, a bit tentative in their step. And yet they loom large—still pillars of home and society, suns around which moons revolve.

While queuing to order my lunch at a fast food chain, I overheard a conversation between the cashier and a senior citizen customer. The cashier refused to grant the customer the 20 percent senior citizen’s discount because of his failure to present his senior citizen’s identification (ID) card. The elderly man apparently forgot to bring…

By Roberto R. Romulo (The Philippine Star), Sep. 4, 2015 I just had a very enjoyable lunch with my Ateneo law school classmates. During the course of the meal, Raffy Evangelista discussed the challenges of being a senior citizen. He is absolutely correct and accordingly, I am reproducing it as my guest columnist.

THE elderly in the Philippines have traditionally received due care and concern from both the family and society, rooted from the long-held national attitude of reverence for the elderly.

THE government has released P1.2 billion to be spent on the needs of indigent senior citizens, the Department of Budget and Management(DBM) said on Tuesday. The fund released to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) will cover elderly indigents’ social pension. The DBM said that under Section 5 of Republic Act (RA) No.…

It is widely recognised that some countries in Asia are facing an ageing population. According to the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Asia’s elderly population is projected to reach 922.7 million by the middle of this century. As a result, Asia is on track in the next few decades to become the oldest region in the…

(Bloomberg) — Nuchnart Sakvisetchaikul got married four years ago in Bangkok at the age of 33. She has one child and doesn’t want more, an increasingly common trend among a population that is rapidly growing old.

Get together with old classmates, old colleagues, and old friends: The author Letty Lopez with some old college classmates on a fun trip to Vigan. It’s a check list that no one has taken seriously or, worse, has been forgotten:

The new law removes the qualification that a senior citizen has to be an indigent before being covered by PhilHealth MANILA, Philippines – Under a new law, over 6 million senior citizens in the country can avail of health benefits enjoyed by Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) members just by presenting their valid identification cards…

MANILA, Philippines — More than six million senior citizens will be granted automatic coverage by the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. under a law signed last week by President Benigno Aquino III, Senate President Pro-Tempore Senator Ralph Recto said Tuesday.

More than six million elderly in the country will soon become lifetime members of Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth). This was announced by PhilHealth President and CEO Alexander A. Padilla during forum held recently on social protection programs for the elderly, an Elderly Filipino Week activity organized by PhilHealth and the Department of Social Welfare…

LONDON – Norway is the best place to grow old, according to the latest Global AgeWatch index of 96 countries published on Wednesday, while Afghanistan is the worst. All but one of the top 10 countries are in Western Europe, North America and Australasia, with Japan the exception at ninth place, according to the ranking…

ILO report says 52 per cent of older persons receive a pension, but levels are inadequate and the trend has been worsened by fiscal consolidation. GENEVA (ILO News) — Nearly half – 48 per cent – of all people over pensionable age in the world do not receive a pension, and for many of the…

Openings specifying a preference for “new” and “recent” college graduates may deter older applicants and run afoul of federal law. Young tech workers fill office parks and corporate cafeterias across Silicon Valley with few if any grey-haired colleagues in sight. It’s a widely accepted reality within the technology industry that youth rules. But at least…

MANILA, Philippines – When planning for an early retirement, it is important to focus on a “magic number” and have the discipline to be faithful to it.

Retiring from a job is not a factor of age. A lot of people think that retirement has to be at age 60. In fact, one can retire anytime as long as he wishes, but only on the condition that he has the financial capacity to retire. Retirement is a time when you stop going…

MANILA, Philippines – An organization looking after the welfare of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) has started an online petition in Change.org asking Congress to enact a law that will ban age discrimination in workplaces nationwide.

I AGREE with Mr Lawrence Loh Kiah Muan that “a happy retirement requires mental preparedness and financial adequacy” (“What’s needed for a happy retirement”; last Thursday).

Calls to maximize the utility of older workers — by honoring experience, providing training opportunities, and offering flexible work and retirement options — began to sound at least a decade ago. HBR contributors have suggested we “retire retirement” and “adapt for an aging workforce.”

I wake up. What time that is depends on what time I sleep or what appointments I have. If I sleep at 3 a.m., which is happening more and more lately, then maybe I will rise at around 9 a.m. If I have an appointment, I set the alarm on my cell phone and always…

(Reuters Health) – Older people who take blood pressure medications had more serious injuries from falls than those not taking medications, according to a new study. The added risk with blood pressure meds for falls that cause serious injury has been suggested before, but older people shouldn’t stop taking their medications based just on these…

A retired CEO, Jerry was a sad, aging man who reflected constantly on the emptiness of his life. Listening to him, it became clear to me that he had never had any interests outside work. And the prospect of spending time at home with a partner who seemed to have turned into a stranger made…

A global retirement crisis is bearing down on workers of all ages. It will play out for decades, and its consequences will be far-reaching. Many people will be forced to work well past the traditional retirement age of 65. Living standards will fall and poverty rates will rise for the elderly in wealthy countries that…

MANILA, Philippines – Over 700 barangay officials nationwide, including 89 village chiefs, are already senior citizens aged 71 years and older, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) said.