Bureau or Office: National Center for Disease Prevention and Control

Program Briefer

Cognizant of its mandate and crucial role, the Philippine Department of Heallth (DOH) formulated the Health Care Program for Older Persons (HCPOP) in 1998. The DOH HCPOP (presently renamed Health Development Program for Older Persons) sets the policies, standards and guidelines for local governments to implement the program in collaboration with other government agencies, non-government organizations and the private sector.

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER IN ALL CITIES AND MUNICIPALITIES OF THE PHILIPPINES, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR.

SECTION 1. Title. — This Act shall be known as the "Senior Citizens Center Act of the Philippines."

Sec. 2. Declaration of Policy. — It is the declared policy of the State to provide adequate social services and an improved quality of life for all. For this purpose, the State shall adopt an integrated and comprehensive approach towards health development giving priority to elderly among others.chan robles virtual law library

Sec. 3. Definition of Terms. — (a) "Senior citizens," as used in this Act, shall refer to any person who is at least sixty (60) years of age.

(b) "Center," as used in this Act, refers to the place established by this Act with recreational, educational, health and social programs and facilities designed for the full enjoyment and benefit of the senior citizens in the city or municipality.

The Global Movement for Active Ageing, which was conceived by the World Health Organization (WHO), will need the collaboration of many different partners from all over the world. Active ageing is the capacity of the people, as they grow older to lead productive and healthy lives in their families, societies and economies.

The Global Movement will be a network for all those interested in moving policies and practice towards Actives Ageing. It will provide models and ideas for programme and projects that promote active ageing.
The key messages of the Global Movement are:

1. CELEBRATE –
Celebrate ageing ; getting older is good; the alternative dying prematurely is not

2. A SOCIETY FOR ALL
Active ageing is key for older persons continuing to contribute to society; all dimensions for being active should be taken into account : the physical, mental, social, and spiritual

3. INTEGENERATIONAL SOLIDARITY
Older persons should not be marginalized: reflecting the theme of the UN International Year of Older Persons, “towards a society for all ages”

What is the Global Embrace 1999?

The Global Embrace, which will mark simultaneously the launching of Global Movement for Active Ageing 1999 International Year for Older Persons, is exactly as the title implies, a series of walk events embracing the globe: in time zone after time zone, ageing will be celebrated in cities around the world, through these walk events. The walk will start in countries in the Pacific, where the date line marks the start of a new day.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representative of the Philippines in Congress assembled: