{"id":73233,"date":"2024-11-06T21:11:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T20:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=73233"},"modified":"2024-11-06T21:22:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T20:22:42","slug":"elderlys-challenges-in-albania-10-8-of-them-live-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/elderlys-challenges-in-albania-10-8-of-them-live-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly\u2019s challenges in Albania, 10.8% of them live alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of elderly living alone is increasing every day. The latest census data show that 10.8% of senior citizens live alone.<\/p>\n<p>Geriatrics experts have analyzed the situation of the elderly and have highlighted that 19% of them have various disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>With increasing age, the rate of disability also increases, if for the age group 65-69 the rate of disability for men is 9% and 12% for women after the age of 85, we see that the rate of disability affects 40% of men and 47% of women.<\/p>\n<p>The 6 most expressed problems in the third age are vision, hearing, mobility, self-care and communication.<\/p>\n<p>Hypertension is the disease from which almost all the elderly suffer.<\/p>\n<p>A study using questions addressed to the elderly has highlighted that 11% have no one to take care of them, while 16% have no one they can trust and talk to.<\/p>\n<p>With the increase in life expectancy, the number of elderly people will continue to grow, parallel to their needs for socio-health care.<\/p>\n<p>Projections drawn up by experts show us that the number of elderly people from 90,900 in 2020, is expected to go to 130,400 in 2030 and 161,100 in 2050.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of elderly living alone is increasing every day. The latest census data show that 10.8% of senior citizens live alone. Geriatrics experts have analyzed the situation of the elderly and have highlighted that 19% of them have various disabilities. With increasing age, the rate of disability also increases, if for the age group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":73234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,1803],"tags":[2646,7018,2647],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Elderly\u2019s challenges in Albania, 10.8% of them live alone - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/elderlys-challenges-in-albania-10-8-of-them-live-alone\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Elderly\u2019s challenges in Albania, 10.8% of them live alone - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The number of elderly living alone is increasing every day. 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