Increasing number of single-elderly women in recent years

The head of the secretariate of the National Council of the Elderly, pointing out that we are facing the phenomenon of feminization of the elderly and reiterated that: this secretariat intends to revise the National Document for the Elderly within a period of 5 years in cooperation with the all relevant institutions mentioned in the National Document for the Elderly.

According to the report of public relations and international affairs, Mozhgan Rezazadeh, head of the Secretariat of the National Council of the Elderly, said in an interview with ILNA reporter about the situation of the elderly in the country: 47.11 percent of the country's population is elderly, and the elderly women population is 52.27 percent) and based on the analysis, the country's aging population is becoming more female.

Rezazadeh made remark that about the empowerment plan for elderly single women: The plan for empowering single-elderly women is carrying out in order to improve the quality of life in period of aging by strengthening inter-departmental communication and using the capacity of other relevant institutions.

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