Issues affecting the elderly addressed at senior citizens Parliament

THE KwaZulu-Natal Senior Citizens Parliament (SCP) was held in the Umdoni Municipality to provide older persons with a platform to highlight the issues that affect them.

- ZAINUL DAWOOD

THE KwaZulu-Natal Senior Citizens Parliament (SCP) will adopt a set of resolutions that will be processed by the relevant KZN Legislature committees and are to be forwarded to the provincial government for implementation.

The KZN Legislature hosted the annual SCP in the Umdoni Municipality yesterday to provide older persons with a platform to raise issues that affect them.

The event was attended by older persons from all 10 Ugu districts with the theme “Older Persons Driving Local and Global Action: Our Aspirations, Our well-being and our Rights”.

The SCP formed commissions to discuss issues that were of interest to older persons. They included:

@ Inadequate healthcare facilities for senior citizens.

@ Inadequate housing facilities for senior citizens.

@ Challenges that are brought by the Social Security Agency.

@ How to bridge the gap to reduce the growing digital divide among senior citizens.