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Filipinos aged 60 and above are residing in rural areas according to a 2018 study by the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia and approximately one in every five of Filipino senior citizens had experienced a fall within the 12 months preceding the survey. Meanwhile 18 percent of senior citizens across the country suffer from symptoms of arthritis – disorder that commonly affects joints and constrains mobility.

According to the Department of Health (DOH), chronic kidney disease (CKD) is currently the 4th leading cause of death in the country with End Stage Kidney Disease developing as secondary to complications of diabetes, hypertension, and chronic glomerulonephritis.

Beginning 2022, the Philippine national government is expected to fully devolve a wide range of functions it has been delivering on behalf of local government units following a Supreme Court decision which recomputed and as a result, increased the shares of LGUs in the national revenue.