The publication presents various aspects the life of older people in Poland. This work contains the characteristics of the population of the elderly and presents housing and economic situation of seniors. Additionally, a presentation of selected issues concerning their health, social assistance and activity is included here. The elaboration has been prepared on the basis on the latest available survey results carried out by the Statistics Poland within the Programme of Statistical Surveys of Public Statistics and aggregated data prepared by the Statistics Poland on the basis of ministerial reporting. The data have been supplemented with information from non-statistical sources.

07.12.2022

The pdf file of the "The situation of older people in Poland in 2020" has been modified. Permanent allowances and care services data have been corrected (page 11 lines 6 and 7, page 35 paragraph 1 and chart 25, page 36 paragraph 1, page 53 paragraph 4 and 5, page 54 table 20).