International Day of Older Persons

About 2.5 million pensioners live in the republic.The state pays great attention to the elderly in Belarus. The country has created a large-scale social protection system for the elderly. It includes various benefits and guarantees, pension increases, social services and home assistance.

About 2.5 million pensioners live in the republic, about 70 thousand veterans of the Great Patriotic War (including 54 thousand disabled and war veterans). The age of 100 years or more reached 720 inhabitants of the country, of which 22 people crossed the 110-year mark.

Social services for older persons are aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of the assistance provided to them. The introduction of the state social standard in the field of social services allows to expand the range and improve the quality of services provided, create conditions for the use of innovative technologies of social work.

Belarus will continue to take measures to improve the effectiveness of social protection and additional support for the most needy veterans, all elderly people.