The 30-measure strategy, which was presented on the occasion of the International Day of Older Persons, observed on 1 October, will be implemented in six fields: social protection, healthcare, lifelong learning, various aspects of free time, human rights and civil society, said Romana Galic, the head of the city department for social protection and persons with disabilities.
Galic said that the implementation of the strategy would create preconditions for adding Zagreb to the World Health Organisation's Global Network for Age-friendly Cities and Communities.
Every tenth resident in Zagreb aged above 85, 1 in 5 residents older than 65
Zagreb boasts that the life expectancy of its residents has risen, which is evident in the data that one in ten citizens is in the age cohort above 85.
In 2019, as many as 220 people living in this city were older than 100.
Also, a share of the elderly in the total population of the city has risen. For instance in 2014, 14% of the city's residents were in the age cohort above 65, and this share rose to 17% in 2011, while in 2018, 1 in every 5 residents were older than 65.