Planning: 3.4% of the population is over 65 years old
Iraq 2023/07/16
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Baghdad: Rula Wathiq
The Ministry of Planning announced that it had put forward nine proposals as measures to take care of the elderly, noting that 3.4% of the population is 65 years of age or older, according to a census in the year 2021. The ministry’s spokesman, Abdul Zahra Al-Hindawi, explained in an interview with Al-Sabah
. ", that "despite the small numbers of the elderly and their percentage in the total population, there are no health care programs available for them or the old-age security program that provides social protection according to their needs, as well as work programs that provide them with actual capabilities to play active roles in society and maintain their vitality and psychological and physical comfort.”
Al-Hindawi added that "it is necessary to strengthen policies, programs and projects aimed at providing the necessary care for the elderly group, according to Articles 29 and 30 of the constitution," pointing out that the aim of the new policies is "to comprehensively cover the elderly who are covered by social protection systems on an equitable basis and to increase the institutions concerned with providing services." Health and social services for them, the role of shelter, ensuring appropriate spatial coverage and raising its efficiency, and directing investment in their expertise to enhance communication between generations and moral support
for them.
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