Signing of the Cooperation Program with the Department of Population and Family Planning

On March 29, the Provincial Association of the Elderly (NCT) held a conference to review the first quarter's work, deploy tasks for the second quarter of 2024; and sign a coordination program with the Department of Population and Family Planning.

In the first quarter, the Association at all levels directed the branches and groups in the whole province to admit 3,612 members, bringing the total number of elderly members to 145,354/153,640, reaching 94.6%. On the occasion of the Lunar New Year, the province established delegations to visit and give more than 87,000 gifts, worth nearly 37 billion VND to the elderly.

The whole province has had 23,040 elderly people (100% of elderly people according to the Elderly Law) celebrated their longevity, wished them longevity, and given gifts, with a total budget of 8.62 billion VND; 112 self-help intergenerational clubs in the province were established to organize activities, celebrate longevity, celebrate longevity for club members and organize cultural, artistic and physical education exchanges. In March 2024, the Provincial Elderly Association Representative Board coordinated with HAI to organize initial training on establishing, operating and managing self-help intergenerational clubs for 9 provisional Executive Boards and Association officials at all levels where the project will be implemented in 2024...

These activities help cadres, members, and the elderly to be more excited, always be exemplary and actively propagate and mobilize their children, families and people to implement the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws, local regulations, village conventions and residential area conventions. The elderly are more enthusiastic in promoting their intelligence and life experience in labor, production, environmental protection, building cultural families, model families, encouraging learning, encouraging talents to build a learning society, actively participating in building a strong political system at the grassroots level...

nct — Delegates attending the conference.

The conference also took time to evaluate the results achieved after 1 year of implementing the coordination program in elderly health care between the Representative Board of the Elderly Association of Ninh Binh province and the Community Health Investment Joint Stock Company.

Next, the Provincial Elderly Association Representative Board also signed a coordination program with the Department of Population and Family Planning and the Elderly Association in elderly health care activities in Ninh Binh province for the period 2024-2025.

The coordination focuses on continuing to advise and direct the effective implementation of the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws on elderly health care. Strengthening propaganda on mass media on elderly health care.

Producing and distributing communication products on elderly health care; Coordinating the organization of events and activities in response to occasions and anniversaries related to the elderly... to raise awareness and sense of responsibility of the community and each family about elderly health care and promoting the role of the elderly in the family and society;

Organize conferences to disseminate knowledge about physical exercise, health improvement and prevention of common diseases to help the elderly know how to prevent diseases and take care of their own health; Coordinate activities at Intergenerational Self-Help Clubs in the localities; Coordinate activities to take care of the health of the elderly in ethnic minority and mountainous areas to respond to the aging population...

Dao Hang-Minh Quang

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