Open AccessElderly Protection and Empowerment Towards Elderly Healthy, Independent, Quality, Creative and Productive
Author(s) -
Yati Maryati
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of recent technology and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2277-3878
DOI - 10.35940/ijrte.d7304.118419
Subject(s) - welfare , empowerment , government (linguistics) , social welfare , life expectancy , quality (philosophy) , economic growth , business , kinship , population , public relations , gerontology , medicine , political science , economics , law , environmental health , linguistics , philosophy , epistemology
One of indicator of successful development is to increase life expectancy and this lead us to consequences of increasing of elderly population. And these matters shall become challenges in development itself. But it is unfortunate and ironically, that it turns out that the elderly cannot reach access to welfare services, because of development, so they cannot fulfill their living needs adequately. If these problems cannot be anticipated from now on by our government, then the increasing number of elderly people shall be borne by the government. And the implication to the development process will experience various obstacles. The aim of this article is to implement Law No. 13 of 1998 about Elderly Welfare towards healthy, independent, quality, creative and productive elderly so that their welfare is materialized, through maintenance of cultural and kinship system and closer to God Almighty. As for the method of implementation, are through the collection of secondary data from the results of several activities to improve social welfare of the elderly, which displaying reduction and data analysis and drawing conclusions. The realization of healthy, independent, quality, creative and productive elderly, through easy access, various social services and training.