Elderly

Sales tax exemption for elderly approved

Published by rudy Date posted on December 26, 2009

Congress has a special gift for “senior citizens” this Christmas —exemption from the 12-percent value-added tax on their purchase of goods and services.

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CHED offers scholarship grants to senior citizens

Published by rudy Date posted on December 20, 2009

La Trinidad, Benguet, Philippines – Elderly people who wish to continue their studies can still go back to school with the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Cordillera Region’s newest scholarship program.

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Sports injuries in seniors

Published by rudy Date posted on December 4, 2009

It won’t make you younger but staying active as you age can go a long way toward maintaining and improving your health. The benefits of regular activity, though, are sometimes blunted by unexpected injury. As a growing number of Filipinos older than 65 have become more active, their rates of sports-related injuries have risen significantly.…

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Cebu eyed as haven for retirees

Published by rudy Date posted on November 25, 2009

CEBU, Philippines – Cebu City is now being promoted as one of the country’s havens for both local and foreign retirees through a memorandum of understanding signed between the Cebu City government, the Philippine Retirement Authority and the Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

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People with disabilities and the world of work: “We have a long way to go, but together we can make a difference”

Published by rudy Date posted on November 11, 2009

With some 10 percent of the world population living with disabilities – the current global economic crisis is cause for concern. People with disabilities are often excluded and marginalized, and are particularly vulnerable in times of crisis. This week, Academy Award winning actress Marlee Matlin and a panel of experts will address the impact of…

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Angara wants full 20 percent discount to elderly returned

Published by rudy Date posted on November 9, 2009

As Congress enters its last remaining weeks before the next round of elections, when it resumes sessions this week, a senator is pushing the enactment of a law effectively lifting senior citizens from value-added tax in goods and services.

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Lawmaker bats for quarterly financial assistance to elderly

Published by rudy Date posted on November 2, 2009

A lawmaker is seeking additional provisions for financial assistance to marginalized senior citizens to enable them to maintain a “good quality of life with dignity and respect.”

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Remembering to forget

Published by rudy Date posted on October 25, 2009

When I left for Kyrgyzstan last month, a friend of mine, Dan Pinto, gave me a copy of 60zens: Tips on Senior Citizenship. I told Dan he needed the book more than I did, since he’s already at that age where he deserves discounts on the basic necessities of his former wildly (mis)spent life. Nevertheless,…

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Zialcita pushes fast enactment of Cosca

Published by rudy Date posted on October 23, 2009

Parañaque City Rep. Eduardo Zialcita yesterday sought the urgent enactment of Comprehensive Senior Citizens Act of 2009 (Cosca) to alleviate poverty and improve the well-being of more than 20,000 senior citizens in Parañaque City and the total 4.6 million elderly throughout the country.

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Internet surfing boosts mid-age, elders brain function, says study

Published by rudy Date posted on October 21, 2009

LOS ANGELES: Scientists at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), have found that web surfing for middle-aged and seniors with little Internet experience have boosted their brain function. “We found that for older people with minimal experience, performing Internet searches for even a relatively short period of time can change brain activity patterns and enhance…

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Complete retirement ‘bad for you’

Published by rudy Date posted on October 15, 2009

Giving up work completely on retirement could be bad for your health, US research suggests. The study of 12,189 people found retirees who take on temporary or part-time work have fewer major diseases, and function better day to day.

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Too old for sex?

Published by rudy Date posted on September 29, 2009

Long-term medical conditions compound the sexual issues that men and women face during the natural aging process. Heart disease, diabetes, and cancer are just some of the illnesses that can have a serious lasting impact on your sexuality. What’s more, the emotional aspects of an illness often weigh as heavily as the physical ones. One…

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Three by forty

Published by rudy Date posted on September 20, 2009

MANILA, Philippines – I turned 40 last month. I am officially, incontrovertibly, cannot be denied, in midlife. In our former lives as human beings, we simply lived life chronologically. (For example, my 76-year-old mother doesn’t even remember undergoing menopause.) Sometime in the past few years, a series of symptoms have been assigned a new term:…

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Senior sway

Published by rudy Date posted on September 17, 2009

A few days ago, we celebrated “Grandparent’s Day,” which, to my recollection, was never really given much hype until the late 1990s. Growing up, I was not even aware that such an occasion even existed, even though logic and sentiment certainly justify a special day for lolo and lola. In fact, during a less-than-profound moment,…

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Enjoying the inevitable process of aging

Published by rudy Date posted on September 10, 2009

These are excerpts from the book, “Let Evening Come: Reflections on Aging” by Mary C. Morrison. Morris L. West wrote a beautiful Preface for the book, although he never met the woman who wrote it. “I cherish a faint hope that one day before we both move off the planet, we may meet and touch…

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US, European firms eye RP retirement industry

Published by rudy Date posted on August 25, 2009

MANILA, Philippines – Companies from the United States and Europe are looking at investing in the country’s retirement sector, with plans already on the table to set up “continuing care facilities” for retirees.

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Govt expects rise in foreign retirees amid global crisis

Published by rudy Date posted on August 18, 2009

The Philippine Retirement Authority (PRA) this year targets to enroll about a third more foreign retirees, its chairman said.

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Developing world faces age crisis

Published by rudy Date posted on July 3, 2009

New research warns of a population time bomb for developing nations as the ratio of elderly people rises faster than in the industrialised world.

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Seniors without pensions to get government aid

Published by rudy Date posted on July 2, 2009

MANILA, Philippines – Senior citizens above 70 years not receiving any pension are set to get a P500 monthly stipend from the national government.

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DOF backs proposed 30% discount for senior citizens

Published by rudy Date posted on June 29, 2009

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Finance (DOF) expressed support to the proposal to raise the discount rate for senior citizens from the current 20 percent to 30 percent.

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Some kind of purgatory

Published by rudy Date posted on June 15, 2009

THE HAGUE, the Netherlands – Somehow words take a very different meaning when expressed by people whose lives are “living examples” of those words.

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Binay urges Congress, Comelec to prioritize special precincts for elderly, PWDs

Published by rudy Date posted on May 17, 2009

Makati Mayor and United Opposition (UNO) president Jejomar Binay yesterday urged Congress and the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to prioritize the setting up of special voting precincts for senior citizens and the disabled.

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Elderly need more ‘sun vitamin’

Published by rudy Date posted on May 16, 2009

Spending more time in the sun could help older people cut their risk of heart disease and diabetes say experts.

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Getting old (Part 3 of 3 Parts)

Published by rudy Date posted on April 16, 2009

So what are old people to do? The inevitability of death is creeping up on them they cannot run from it for there is nowhere to run. Instead, they have no choice but to look at it in the eye and stare it down. This, even if they do all within the limits of their…

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Growing old (Part 1 of 3 parts)

Published by rudy Date posted on April 16, 2009

Numerous possibilities, few inevitabilities . . . that’s life. The sky’s the limit, but in that journey there are a few inescapable realities. Growing older is one of them. Aging not only happens, it happens fast . . .

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Getting old (Part 2 of 3 Parts)

Published by rudy Date posted on April 15, 2009

When I did some consultancy work with a large multinational corporation years ago, a top executive told me of a study the company had made. It seems that their executives who retired lived on average only two years. That is, two years after retirement, they were dead.

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NTRC rejects property tax exemption for seniors

Published by rudy Date posted on March 29, 2009

MANILA, Philippines – The National Tax Research Center (NTRC) of the Department of Finance (DOF) has thumbed down a proposal at the House of Representatives seeking to exempt from property tax the families of senior citizens.

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NTRC bucks property tax exemption for seniors

Published by rudy Date posted on March 28, 2009

STATE-RUN National Tax Research Center (NTRC) is bucking a congressional bill that proposes exempting from property tax the homes and land owned by senior citizens.

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Pension now for poor older people

Published by rudy Date posted on March 19, 2009

I am told that the Philippines is the only country in Asia that has no social pension for poor, older people. These are mostly the ones who were not formally employed when they were younger and therefore did not have social security or insurance that they could draw from in their older years.

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Aging population changes the global economy

Published by rudy Date posted on March 4, 2009

Last November 3, Josephine Moulds wrote an article in the UK Daily Telegraph about George Magnus, senior economic adviser to Swiss bank UBS, who is widely acknowledged to have predicted that the US sub-prime mortgage crisis would trigger a global recession.

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