Official reply:
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
QUESTION 171/2013
FOR WRITTEN REPLY
Date of publication on internal question paper: 14 February 2013
Internal question paper no: 01
171. Mrs S P Kopane (DA) to ask the Minister of Social Development:
Whether her department has any strategies on how to achieve the full
implementation of the Older Persons Act, Act 13 of 2006; if not, (a) why
not and (b) how is her department measuring its achievements in this
regard; if so, (i) what are the strategies and (ii) by what year is it
anticipated that the Act will be fully implemented?
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Reply:
1) (a) Yes, the Department does have a coherent strategy to achieve the
full implementation of the Older Persons Act.
(a) Not applicable.
(b) Monitoring and Evaluation instrument for community based care and
support services and residential facilities for older persons has been
developed and implemented to measure achievements in this regard (find
attached document Annexure A).
(i) The strategy for the implementation of the Older Persons Act was
developed and consulted with Provinces and other stake holders (find
attached document Annexure B)
(ii) The Older Persons Act is progressively being implemented and part of
it has been fully implemented. Since there are also other competing
needs in terms of funding for the implementation of the Act, it is
currently difficult to specify when the act will be fully implemented.