ROMANIAN SOCIAL PROTECTION SYSTEM FOR EDERLY PEOPLE
ROMANIAN SOCIAL PROTECTION SYSTEM FOR EDERLY PEOPLE

Summary/Abstract: In recent decades, demographic ageing has become a sensitive issue withan impact on various fields of activity and on future generations, marked by an alarmingincrease of elderly population and declining birth rate. The National System of SocialAssistance represents a complex system of measures of motorization and control of main risksthat the citizens are exposed to respectively old age, illness, unemployment, injury andpoverty. Through the guaranteed intervention of the state the framework for respectinghuman rightsisinsured, the means and measures of social protection, manifesting solidaritywith the elderly people in need. As a member of the European Union, Romania is committedto promote and to implement political strategies for active ageing, insuring measures formaintaining optimal health conditions for citizens, social security, assistance and socialprotection. The purpose of the article consists in theoretical analysis of the national systemfor assistance and social protection destined for the elderly in Romania, which plays afundamental role in implementing and updating policies for active ageing, as well as tostimulate population growth. Keywords: ageing population, active ageing, elderly people,social services, social protection.

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