These months and months of COVID variants, infections, and surges have brought about so much fear, stress, panic, anxiety, and frustration for all of us. When will it all end? We ask ourselves every day while hoping that the virus will soon be vanquished by science and prayers. True, we have gone...
Senator Sonny Angara on Friday, Oct. 21 urged authorities and local governement officials to go the extra mile and accelerate efforts to reach out to the elder population, of which a significant portion of them remains unvaccinated to this day. Citing World Health Organization (WHO) report, Angara...
Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto has vowed a social pension program for senior citizens and a re-evaluation of those who did not receive their P2,400 cash gift. (Photo from Mayor Vico Sotto's Facebook) In a Facebook post, Sotto gave the details during Pasig City’s Senior Citizen's General Assembly and...
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) on Tuesday, Oct. 19, underscored the need to reach out to senior citizens who have yet to receive their jabs against coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) Citing data from the Department of Health (DOH), PRC said that 3.4 million seniors in the...
Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) Spokesperson Harry Roque reiterated on Tuesday, Oct. 19 that vaccinated seniors citizens can go outdoors and visit malls. A senior citizen receiving a COVID-19 jab (Ali Vicoy/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) "Hindi po natin binabawi iyong incentive na binigay natin sa...
The Makati City local government unit (LGU) announced on Monday that over 37,000 fully vaccinated senior citizens in the city have already received their gift certificates worth P1,000 as an incentive. In a Facebook post, the LGU said that as of Oct. 16, a total of 37,394 fully vaccinated senior...
Three centenarians received P100,000 cash each from the Quezon City local government on Saturday. This is the city government's way of celebrating the Elderly Filipino Week. Mayor Joy Belmonte and the Office for the Senior Citizens Affairs of Quezon City (OSCA) handed the cash gift, fruit baskets,...
Senator Leila de Lima on Sunday vowed to pursue the welfare and protection of the country’s elderly citizens as she seeks another term in the Senate. De Lima said she will make sure that the voices and concerns of senior citizens are properly heard and addressed as she seeks another six-year...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has called on all sectors to work together in building a caring society for the elderly, as it recognized the senior citizens’ contributions to nation-building. (Juan Carlo de Vela/MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The DSWD said both public and...
Bayan Muna Party List Representative Carlos Zarate called for an increase in the social pension for elderly people on Thursday, September 30. Bayan Muna Representative Carlos Zarate During the House of Representatives' deliberation on the National Commission of Senior Citizens (NCSC) proposed 2022...
What was supposed to be a distribution of the monthly pension for senior citizens turned into a super spreader event when a large crowd flocked to Delpan Sports Complex in Tondo, Manila on Monday, Sept. 27, disregarding physical distancing and other health protocols. Senior citizens, persons...
The Makati City local government opened on Wednesday the registration for its free flu and pneumonia vaccine for senior citizens. The city government said that the vaccination aims to protect the city's senior citizens against the harmful effects of flu and pneumonia, especially amid the COVID-19...
