YEREVAN, MAY 30, NOYAN TAPAN. At present 4 state houses of old and disabled people function in Armenia: 2 in Yerevan, one in Gyumri and in Vardenis and 2 non-state ones in Lori and Kotayk. In total, 1010 old people live at these homes. As Noyan Tapan correspondent was informed by Anahit Gevorgian, Head of the Department on Old People's Problems of the Board on Problems of Disabled and Old People of RA Ministry of Labor and Social Issues, 604 of the old people are women. A.Gevorgian mentioned that no queues are formed for being admitted to homes of old and disabled people in the recent years and the number of old people living there has become stable. According to her, formerly those applying to these homes were waiting for several years, while now these issues are solved within a month and the number of these people is not large, either. A.Gevorgian also said that in difference to 1995-2000 when almost 70% of the old people living at old people's homes had children, today only 25% of them have children.

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