Social Responses for Older People in COVID-19 Pandemic: Experience from Vietnam

This paper aims to provide an overview of all aggregate responses of society to support older people to fight the COVID-19 in Vietnam, a country that has done a good process of preventing diseases by limited resources. I introduce a model of social responses that systematizing the activities of government, socio-political organizations, entrepreneurs and private sponsors to older people. The success of Vietnam is remarkable and can be a good lesson for countries (especially those with limited resources) in building effective models in caring for older people in a pandemic.