Senior Citizens Government assistance: Social services

Senior Citizens Government assistance: Social services

The DSWD, in cooperation with the OSCA and the local government units, non-governmental organizations and people’s organizations for senior citizens, shall develop and implement programs and social services for senior citizens. Local government units shall ensure that the devolved programs and social services are provided. The components of these programs are:

• Self and social enhancement services which provide senior citizens opportunities for socializing, organizing, creative expression, and improvement of self;
• After care services for senior citizens who are discharged from the homes/ institutions for the aged, especially those who have problems of reintegration with family and community, wherein both the senior citizens and their families are provided with counseling;
• Neighborhood support services/home care services wherein the community or family members provide caregiving services to their frail, sick, or bedridden senior citizens; and
• Substitute family care in the form of residential care, group homes, or foster homes for the abandoned, neglected, unattached or homeless senior citizens and those incapable of selfcare.
• Inclusion of community-based settings as practicum for academic institutions and in the curriculum of caregiving and technical vocational schools.