Recreation centres to be opened in Bangkok

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 05, 2018
|

A senior local authority official in Bangkok vowed on Monday to open recreation centres throughout the capital within 200 days.

Bangkok Metropolitan Administration deputy governor Thaweesak Lertprapan said the faciltities would be called “three-age” recreation centres and would cater for the young, middle-aged and elderly.
So far, nine such centres have been opened in a pilot scheme across nine districts.
Thaweesak was speaking after chairing a meeting of BMA agencies that focused on the quality of life for elderly people in particular.
He said the BMA had carried out surveys and found that 30 per cent of elderly people in Bangkok were living below the poverty line. There are currently about 900,000 old folk in Bangkok, a number which is expected to grow 20 per cent by 2025.
About 50,000 of elderly people in the city could not help themselves and 70,000 suffered symptoms of degenerative brain disease, Thaweesak added.