Jhezelle Nicole R.

Ignacio
BS Nursing
Older Adult
3rd Year
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Thursday, September 3, 2020 at 9:04 AM

The Department of Health issued an Administrative order with the title of The Health and
Wellness Program For Senior Citizen is made with the support from the R.A 9257 (The
Expanded Senior Citizen Act of 2003) and R.A 994 (Expanded Senior Citizen Act of 2010). It is
for the health practitioners to engage and promote the health and wellness of senior citizens and
to alleviate the conditions of older people who are experiencing degenerative ailments. The
DOH agenda is for the senior citizens of the Philippines would be able to improve their quality
of life by giving them centralize health services.
The Health and Wellness Program For Senior Citizens, it guarantees them that would
have access to health care when they need it. Granted how many of our Filipino senior citizens
can't easily afford to go to the hospital for a check-up but, with this program, it would help
become the priority of the hospital. It is also to ensure that the senior citizen would have the
essential health services the includes, the preventive, promotive, treatment, and rehabilitation
services both from the local and national level.
In my understanding with this Administrative Order, it talks about how the DOH
Wellness Program has given increase immunization coverage for the elderly and to strengthen
their form. Senior citizens can quickly be infected in an instant due to having a weak immune
system. With the help of this program, they helped accomplished giving free influenza and
pneumococcal vaccine for the senior citizen which is very important to how they could easily be
infected with the disease. This is to show how important free immunization is for the elderly. It
also introduced the Elderly Filipino Week Celebration wherein different organizations both from
the private and public sector showcase how important the senior citizens by starting with the
“Walk for Life” an activity which is done in different parts of the Philippines. This program is an
eye-opener for the value of the senior citizen's health that it should be a priority to take care of
the people who have taken care of us.

References:
https://www.manilatimes.net/2020/02/19/lifestyle-entertainment/life-times/health-wellness/doh-
wellness-program-protects-elderly-filipinos-from-third-killer/689376/
https://www.manilatimes.net/2020/02/19/lifestyle-entertainment/life-times/health-wellness/doh-
wellness-program-protects-elderly-filipinos-from-third-killer/689376/

http://cornermagazineph.com/2019/10/06/elderly-filipino-week-celebrations-at-sm-
supermalls/#:~:text=Elderly%20Filipino%20Week%202019%20will,of%20Asia%20in%20Pasay%20City.

https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/2011/09/29/walk-for-life-kicks-off-elderly-filipino-week/