Women account for as much as 57.82 percent of the total elderly population. Less than 40 percent of older people receive pensions, social insurance, social allowances, or benefits for people with meritorious service. They agreed that, with current socio-economic conditions, Vietnam needs a flexible, reasonably priced, community-based care model on a large scale and maintained sustainably in the long term. Compared with nursing homes, the day care model has many outstanding advantages: strong preventive value, helping reduce the burden on the healthcare system. In late December 2025, Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long signed Prime Minister’s Directive No35 on strengthening elderly care work in response to population aging.

Source: VietNamNet News January 28, 2026 03:08 UTC