Africa-Press – Ghana. Mr Ebenezer Adjetey-Sorsey, the Executive Director of HelpAge Ghana, has called on the youth to take advantage of the economic value of the country’s aging population.
He asked them to develop care instruments such as walking mobility aids, which have economic value, for the aged. Mr Adjetey-Sorsey said this in an interview with the GNA on the sidelines of a stakeholder meeting organised by the Centre for Aging Studies (CAS), University of Ghana, in Accra.
He noted that mostly: “We only think they are burden on us for handouts,” but they offered job opportunities. Mr Adjetey-Sorsey reiterated the call for the passage of the Aging Bill to, “promote and protect specified rights of older persons, and urged Government to to prioritise issues of older persons.
“We are actually putting the issues of older people to the background and careful observation indicates that all the major political parties have issues of older persons in the manifestos, but none had been implemented.”
Mr Adjetey-Sorsey said Government must not be waiting for ‘leftovers’ before fixing the needs of the aged and that they needed to be prioritised. He said many aged people were not on any social protection intervention by the Government and said it was time they were treated as professionals who once served the nation.
The meeting was for the Centre to interact with key partners on plans and projects for the year. The aged present were taken through the importance of sleeping and waking up properly and sitting well to avoid pain in any part of the body.
Professor Mavis Dako-Gyeke, the Director, CAS, said the Organisation would hold an online seminar on health for the aged. She said they would also conduct research on aging to inform policy directions.
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