Ghana’s elderly population increasing – Research

Togbe Adom Drayi II, Head of Organisation Department, Trade Union Congress (TUC-Ghana), on Friday said Ghana as other countries of the world is experiencing an increase in the number of elderly in society.

Togbe Drayi II was speaking at a day’s workshop to educate journalists on a research they conducted on Elderly Care Arrangement in Ghana.

He said the trend showed that as a country “we need to take issues of the elderly very seriously and put in place implementable policies to address the problems of the aged in our society."

He said Ghana in 2010 adopted a policy on the aged under...