Older people’s stories

70-year-old Lyudmila is a social care worker in eastern Ukraine. In addition to talking about her own experience, she echoes the thoughts of the people she has worked with.

Social pensions can help provide a much-needed safety net for older people who may otherwise be left without any income.

Among the hardest hit were older people, who now find themselves grappling with the loss of their homes, livelihoods, and loved ones.

We look at the survivors who now have to rebuild their lives, and at the humanitarian response of HelpAge's partner SEMA.

Stories of older people who survived the catastrophic earthquake in Syria.

Two years after the military coup in Myanmar, older people support each other and their families despite difficulties created by the new regime.

Robina Bughio, 56, is a widow living in the village of Hadi Bux Shah in the suburbs of Shahpur Jahania, in Shaheed Benazirabad District, Sindh Province.

Muhmmad Salih (75) from Shahpur Jahania village in Shaheed Benazirabad district, is now living with his family in the open air as they couldn’t get to the shelter provided in the community school quickly enough, and it was already full. The mud-plastered home he shared with his wife and four children was completely destroyed by the heavy rains and his livestock were killed. 

Haji Noor Muhammad (70) from Shaheed Benazirabad district in Sindh Province is paralysed down the right side of his body so when heavy rains destroyed his home, he struggled to make it to a safer place.

People have flocked to the city of Dnipro from all over eastern Ukraine, fleeing the war with Russia. Here are their stories.

I was born on July 12, 1941, as bombs were falling. My father named me ‘Viktoria’ for victory, anticipating a win over the Nazi invaders.

I am from Lyadova in Vinnytsia Oblast, near the Moldovan border, but I moved to a suburb of Kyiv with my daughter, Olga (46), and granddaughter Anastasiia (15), four years ago.