DK to get new Senior Citizen law

Denmark will have a law on the elderly, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen promised two years ago, and soon it will be more concrete. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen wrote on Instagram that she will talk about the welfare and health of senior citizens in her New Year’s speech on January 1, 2024. More specifically, she promises something concrete on the law on senior citizens. “I will lift some of the veil on the long-awaited senior citizen reform that the government will present in the New Year,” she writes. The speech will revolve around “the immediate welfare and health of senior citizens “.     “I know that in a New Year’s speech two years ago, I announced a new law on senior citizens. The work has taken time – also too long – but now we are ready, and I am really looking forward to telling you more about it,” she writes.
     Minister for Senior Citizens Mette Kierkgaard sees it as positive that the Senior Citizens Act has “taken a long time”. “And I’m actually proud of that. Because we went to the polls on taking speed out of politics – and doing things properly. Listen, learn and talk to experts – both from everyday life and research. Meet the people it’s all about – senior citizens and the employees. And then present policies that are not the lowest common denominator, but the best we can deliver,” says Kierkgaard in a written comment. /ritzau/