Learning Objectives
• Define and differentiate Geriatrics and Gerontology
• Discuss the general concepts and principles of aging
• Discuss the functional processes of older adults
• Explain and discuss frailty, comorbidity, and disability
• Identify the different by-laws and regulations, benefits of elderly in
the Philippines
Aging
Categories
• Ages of 65 and 74 years as
youngest-old
• Ages 75 and 84 years as
middle-old
• Aged over 85 years as oldest-
old
FRAILTY,
COMORBIDITY
and DISABILITY
A. Frailty B. Comorbidity C. Disability
1. A physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or
more of the major life activities
2. Clinical syndrome characterized by multiple characteristics
including weight loss, fatigue, weakness, low activity, slow motor
performance, and balance and gait abnormalities
3. The concurrent presence of two or more chronic disease or
conditions
4. Need for rehabilitative, community, supportive services
5. Potential for prevention of selected individual diseases
6. Need to treat underlying conditions, weakness, malnutrition
FRAILTY
COMORBIDITY
DISABILITY
FILIPINO ELDERLY By laws and rights
GOVERNMENT POLICIES
RELATED TO OLDER
PEOPLE
NATIONAL POLICY ON
OLDER PEOPLE
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 344 OR THE
ACCESSIBILITY LAW OF 1982
provides for the minimum requirements and standards to make
buildings, facilities, and utilities for public use accessible to persons
with disabilities, including older persons who are confined to
wheelchairs and those who have difficulty in walking or climbing stairs,
among others.
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 344 OR THE
ACCESSIBILITY LAW OF 1982
provides for the minimum requirements and standards to make
buildings, facilities, and utilities for public use accessible to persons
with disabilities, including older persons who are confined to
wheelchairs and those who have difficulty in walking or climbing stairs,
among others.
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7876 ENTITLED “AN ACT
ESTABLISHING A SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER IN
ALL CITIES AND MUNICIPALITIES OF THE
PHILIPPINES, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS
THEREFORE”
provides for the establishment of Senior Citizens Centers to cater to older
persons’ socialisation and interaction needs as well as to serve as a venue for
the conduct of other meaningful activities.
The DSWD in coordination with other government agencies, NGOs and people’s
organisations shall provide the necessary technical assistance in the form of
social and recreational services, health and personal care services, spiritual
services, livelihood services and volunteer resource services.
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9994,
“EXPANDED SENIORS CITIZEN
ACT OF 2010″
an act granting additional benefits and privileges to senior citizens, further
amending Republic Act No. 7432 and otherwise known as “an act to maximize
the contribution of senior citizens to nation building, grant benefits, and special
privileges and for other purposes”.
PRESIDENTIAL
PROCLAMATIONS AND
EXECUTIVE ORDERS
Presidential Proclamation No. 470, Series of 1994, declaring the first week of
October of every year as “Elderly Filipino Week.”
Presidential Proclamation No. 1048, Series of 1999, declaring a “Nationwide
Observance in the Philippines of the International Year of Older Persons”.
Executive Order No. 105, Series of 2003, approved and directed the
implementation of the program providing for group homes and foster homes
for neglected, abandoned, abused, detached, and poor older persons and
persons with disabilities.
Executive Order No. 105, Series of 2003, approved and directed the
implementation of the program providing for group homes and foster homes
for neglected, abandoned, abused, detached, and poor older persons and
persons with disabilities.
Administrative Order No. 4 series of 2010, “Guidelines on the Home Care
Support Services for Senior Citizens”, establishing community based health
care services for older persons.
RA 9994 provides health care services for poor older persons such as free
medical services on government hospitals, discounted services on private
hospitals and clinics, free vaccines, discounted medicines, and mandatory
PhilHealth coverage.
