The Retirement and Healthcare Coalition (RHC) urged Philippine developers to start putting up full-fledged retirement villages rather than mere “sleeping quarters,” as other countries in the region have gone ahead with their own infrastructure buildup to get a bigger share in the “ballooning” silver market.
A group of retirees has called on the Office of the Ombudsman to stop sitting on the complaints against former top officials of the Social Security System and start doing something to recover SSS members’ money.
One of the biggest challenges Gil Buenaventura will face when he reemerges from a short-lived retirement on October 22 to become the new president of Development Bank of the Philippines is to fill up a shrinking plantilla.
Do retirees constantly need to be reminded of their mortality, such that the primary consideration for a so-called ideal location for them would have to be near advanced medical facilities? Is it just about giving them space and wide alleys to allow for wheelchairs and hospital beds? Do they have to spend their sunset years confined in elderly-friendly structures and facilities?
