Income Security
COSE and older persons work to ensure their rights for an age-friendly, diversified, and secure livelihood; adequate social protection; and equal opportunities in employment and work.
Introduce and establish an age-friendly and diversified livelihood within older person’s organizations (OPOs) such as small-scale businesses and micro-lending, a communal garden that uses crop diversification and typhoon resilient farming, etc.
Old people are honored in the Philippines but aging is not. Beyond all the good programs (health care, advocacy ,etc) my deepest wish is that both older people and society look at aging differently and older people become who they are supposed to be… at the peak and not end of a lifetime of growth and hence invaluable to themselves and others.