Elderly people in the province make up 6.9% of the whole province's population.

Visiting and giving the elderly presents are frequent activities of the Association.

The total of the elderly meet standard to get subsidy for the elderly in accordance with Decree 67 of the government is 7,328. The number of the elderly issued insurance card is 4,266 and the number of those not considered yet is 1,495.   

In term of organization, there are 171 foundations with 129,026 people, 1,020 branches, 5,063 groups. That includes 3,646 the elderly who are party members and 5,528 the elderly who are ethnics.  

The elderly association members take part in different organizations such as,   367 the elderly in the Party Committee, 226 ones in  People’s Council, 42 ones in People’s Committee, 722 ones in Father Front Committee, 10,195 ones in Association of Farmers, 4,169 ones in Association of Veteran, 7,572 ones in Red Cross Association, 11,040 ones in Women’s Association, 3,123 ones in Study Encouragement Association, 1,730 ones in People Security Group, 1,438 ones in  Reconciliation Group, and other organizations as well as associations; for example, 60 ones in Mother’s Association and 6 ones in Oversea Vietnamese Association.

Reported by Nguyen Thuong, translated by Hoai Thu.