AMMAN —
The
National Council for Family Affairs, in cooperation with the UN Population
Fund UN launched a campaign aimed at shedding light on the issues of the
elderly, according to Hala News.
اضافة اعلان
The campaign came in implementation of the outcomes
of the study assessing the reality of care homes for the elderly in Jordan,
implemented by the council with the fund in 2021.
According to an analytical study, the 588,100
elderly people in Jordan made up 5.5 percent of the population by the end of
2020. Of these, 355 reside in care homes: 172 men and 183 women.
Secretary-General of the national council for family
affairs Mohammed Miqdadi said that the launch of the campaign is part of an
attempt at understanding the situation of elderly at national level, adding
that it is the council’s responsibility to carry out its mission, improve the
status of Jordanian families, and care for all its members, noting that caring
for the elderly is of paramount importance, and a religious, national and moral
duty.
The latest study on the elderly, conducted by the
council in 2021 to “assess the reality of nursing homes in Jordan”, showed the
problems of some of these homes, resulting from underfunding and the
unavailability of trained human resources to provide services to older persons,
as well as the need for workers in these homes to attend training courses in
order to upgrade their capacities and better qualify them.
The 2019 World Population Outlook Report indicated that by
2050, 16 percent of the world’s population will be older than 65.
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