An Overview of the Social Protection Policy on Well-being of the Elderly in Cambodia

Suy Rathny,Chhay Leaksmy,Md Amjad Hossain Reyad,Rashmi Chatterjee,Yen Yat

doi:10.17583/rasp.2018.3280

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Abstract

The elderly people in Cambodia are confronting multiple sources of vulnerability; these include living with poorness, health functional disabilities, health issues, social isolation, and limited opportunities to get involved. The government of Cambodia is concerning about the welfare of the elderly, as expressed in the National Development Strategy where government pledges its commitment to promoting the welfare of the elderly by protecting and ensuring that the elderly people are provided with basic needs. On the other hand, social protection in Cambodia has been largely neglected or addressed with inadequate tools and insufficient funds, which leads Cambodia to vulnerability. The principal purpose of this review is to produce a summary of overall social protection system and government associated with the elderly in Cambodia.

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The elderly people in Cambodia are confronting multiple sources of vulnerability; these include living with poorness, health functional disabilities, health issues, social isolation, and limited opportunities to get involved
Social protection refers to the governments action which aims at ensuring the vulnerable people obtain apropos and efficient public support to ensure their financial safety and to protect their well-being (Bloom, Jimenez, & Rosenberg, 2011)
The female was in charge of households was 25.6% out of 2,841,897 households in total whereas the percentage of disabled persons in the total population account for 1.4 %; another burden, there are 118,152 people are unemployed; among these, there are 58,337 people live in urban areas and another 59,815 people live in rural area (NIS, 2008)

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The elderly people in Cambodia are confronting multiple sources of vulnerability; these include living with poorness, health functional disabilities, health issues, social isolation, and limited opportunities to get involved. The interest of social protection has lengthened outstandingly It is a fundamental policy issue in humanitarian and development debates at present (Devereux & Sabates-Wheeler, 2007). The vulnerability of the Cambodian elderly stems from the fact that they are regularly considered as the breadwinner despite their age. This can be partially described by the characteristics of poor and vulnerable households i.e. many small children, lack of adult children, high dependency rate, and migration of adults (Sothorn, 2011). The elderly people in Cambodia inhabit in the high condition of poverty, hardship, and fear of the future (RGC, 2004)

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