International Day of Older Persons celebrated October 1

1 октября 2021

Today Belarus celebrates the Day of Older Persons. There are almost 1.5 million citizens over 65 years old in our country. In fact, this is 16% of the total population. Support and assistance to the older generation is one of the priorities of the state policy. There are 83 residential homes for the elderly and 146 territorial centers in Belarus. They provide services for elderly care, organization of leisure time. A popular service is social assistance at home. It covers almost 94 thousand elderly people.

People of the older generation actively attend computer clubs and learn foreign languages proving that age is not a barrier to new knowledge.