Challenges and Prospects of Active Ageing in Nigeria
Bai-Tachia, Margaret & Anchovur, Timothy Tyowase
Department of Sociology
Benue State University, Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria
Email: megbai2014@gmail.com; anchovurtyowase@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
Active ageing is a long-life process of optimizing opportunities for improving and preserving health, ensuring full participation and guaranteeing security so as to enhance quality of life as people age in a society. Growing old in a transitional society like Nigeria can be graceful and a blessing too but this has its accompanying challenges as well. Ageing is a global phenomenon that cut across cultures and gender. As such there is need to cater for the health of the people as they age in orders to keep them healthy and active thereby contributing to national development. Doing so in Nigeria will enable them to realize their potentials for physical, social, and mental well-being throughout their life course and to participate in the country’s activities based on their needs and ability. The import of this paper, therefore, is the examination of the challenges and prospects of active ageing in Nigeria. One of the challenges facing Nigerians is poor healthcare delivery in the country which is affecting active ageing. The paper recommends, inter alia, that a workable good healthcare policy be initiated and fully implemented to address the challenges of active ageing in Nigeria.
Keywords: Active, Ageing, Challenges, Determinants, Healthcare, Healthy, Prospects Nigeria
