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Health and Wellness In the current October 19, 2018 https://www.doh.gov.p

Program for Senior Philippine Health h/Health-and-Wellness-
Citizen Agenda (2017 - 2022), Program-for-Senior-
guarantees that Citizen
centralize health
services for care in all
life stages, service
delivery networks, and
financial risk
protection, geriatric
health is mentioned as
an area of concern. All
senior citizens are
mandatorily covered by
the Philippine Health
Insurance Corporation
by virtue of Republic
Act No. 10642 “An act
granting mandatory
national health
insurance program of
PhilHealth for all senior
citizens”.

Senior Citizen The Expanded Senior July 11, 2019 https://www.moneyma

Discounts and Benefits Citizens Act of 2010 x.ph/government-
(Republic Act 9994)[1] services/articles/senior
defines the privileges -citizen-discount-
all senior citizens are philippines
entitled to. Elderly
Filipinos aged 60 and
above are entitled to a
20% senior citizen
discount and
exempted from the
value-added tax (VAT)
on applicable goods
and services for their
exclusive use. These
privileges apply to both
cash and credit card
payments.

Abandoned by their Abandoned elderly in March 10, 2020 https://newsinfo.inquir

Children, Senior Central Visayas are er.net/1239090/aband
Citizens Find a “New commonly taken to oned-by-their-children-
Home” homes that are run by seniors-find-new-home
religious institutions or
private groups.
There are nine such
homes in the region—
eight in Cebu province
and one in Bohol
province.
Of the eight homes in
Cebu, four are in Cebu
 City: Gasa sa Gugma—
Home of the Dying
Destitutes; Blessed
Mother Josephine
Vannini Home for the
Aged; Life Care
Residences Philippines;
and Loving Home
Nursing Care.

Growing Old and Poor July 30, 2019 https://onenews.ph/gr

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Republic Act 9994, also the-
known as the Expanded philippines#:~:text=The
Senior Citizens Act of %20modifiable
2010, defines senior %20reasons%20she
citizens as individuals %20identified,that
aged 60 years old and %20tackle%20senior
above. According to the %20citizen%20needs.
Philippine Statistics
Authority, there were
7.5 million senior
citizens in the country,
accounting for 7.5
percent of the total
population, as of its
latest census in 2015.

Social pension and our November 8, 2019 https://businessmirror.

senior citizens com.ph/2019/11/08/so
According to a cial-pension-and-our-
September 2019 senior-citizens/
Philippine Institute for
Development Studies
(PIDS) paper, the
country has about 7.5
million senior citizens—
aged 60 and above—as
of 2015. This number is
expected double to
14.2 million by 2050.
What’s worrisome is
that in 2015, up to 17.5
percent of the elderly
are labeled “income
poor,” representing
roughly 1.2 million
senior citizens who
need support the most.

DOH wellness program February 19, 2020 https://www.manilatim

protects elderly es.net/2020/02/19/life
Filipinos from third Pneumonia vaccination style-
killer enforced through entertainment/life-
Expanded Senior times/health-
Citizen Act of 2010 wellness/doh-wellness-
program-protects-
elderly-filipinos-from-
An important mandate
third-killer/689376/
of the Department of
Health (DOH) is to
protect Filipinos in their
old age enforced
through the “Health
and Wellness Program
for Senior Citizens”
which was
implemented in
support of RA 999 or
“Expanded Senior
Citizen Act of 2010.”