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.
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.
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.…
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.
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…
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.
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.”
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,…
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.
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…
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.
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…
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:…
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,…
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…
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.
The Philippine Retirement Authority (PRA) this year targets to enroll about a third more foreign retirees, its chairman said.
New research warns of a population time bomb for developing nations as the ratio of elderly people rises faster than in the industrialised world.
MANILA, Philippines – Senior citizens above 70 years not receiving any pension are set to get a P500 monthly stipend from the national government.
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.
THE HAGUE, the Netherlands – Somehow words take a very different meaning when expressed by people whose lives are “living examples” of those words.
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.
Spending more time in the sun could help older people cut their risk of heart disease and diabetes say experts.
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…
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 . . .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
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