Rights of older persons, population issues key focus in Việt Nam

All authorities must work closely together to promote the rights and dignity of older people through improving health and social care services and creating the enabling environment for the elderly.

Viet Nam has provided for older persons, and prepare young generations for the future in which all ages are celebrated and no one is left behind.

Vietnam aims to achieve the transformative results of Zero preventable maternal deaths, Zero unmet need for family planning, and Zero gender-based violence and other harmful practices.

Vietnam is doing great to promote human rights for all!

Need to conduct joint research and communications; consulting and supporting project execution; and organizing events for public sharing of research findings.

The country should develop personnel training and exchange programmes; promoting public-private partnerships in light of population aging and emerging population trends.

Population ageing, an accelerated and recent process, poses relevant challenges in different areas. Older persons are very likely to suffer conditions of deprivation and social vulnerability.

The world is getting older: more than three quarters of countries will either be aging or already aged by 2050 (ILO 2020). Population aging refers to changes in the age structure of a population such that there is an increase in the proportion of the elderly.

The becoming one of the fastest aging population in Asia that has created many challenges in developing policies and programs for the elderly in Vietnam.

Due to the lower birth rate and the effects of rural-urban migration, the children‟s financial support will no longer ensure the income security for older people that make them tend to work more.

The coverage of social protection programs for the elderly is limited because its schemes normally cover the good conditional households or working in the formal sector that can afford to make contributions to pension programs and the poor households that have able to get social assistance.

Under the aging population, Vietnam's middle older people and the oldest group will increase and change the percentage on the proportion of elderly.

To encourage older workers to participate in the labor market, the health care system must be improved to help the elderly have the best health condition when they want reemployment.

Vietnam’s population is ageing quickly. In 2017, more than 10 per cent of the population will be 60 and older, and in 15–20 years the elderly will account for one third of the total population. This raises concerns about healthcare, welfare and pensions for the elderly at a time when Vietnam is focusing on economic integration and requires a large labour force.

The Party and State have always cared and issued policies to protect and promote rights of the elder!

So far two solutions have been proposed: to loosen the two-child policy and to increase the retirement age to 58 for women and 62 for men.

While the policy is beneficial in utilising the work experience of the elderly while creating savings in the pension budget, it also means fewer job prospects and promotion opportunities for younger generations.

The Vietnamese government has already taken action by simplifying the entrance exam to university. Previously, Vietnam’s national entrance exam was very difficult and only a limited number of the most talented citizens managed to enter universities.

As living standards in Vietnam improve and more families can afford to send their children to university, universities have become more commercialised and entering university is no longer a rare achievement.

It will take some time for the Vietnamese government to implement long-term and bottom-up solutions to improve labour productivity and services for the elderly, but the country always focuses to protect rights for all older people.