Directions. Read the following excerpt from online research Identify the social , moral, and economic issues in the text. Then, write an essay (2-3 paragraphs) discussing the issues presented. You may include factual information to support your ideas. Please be guided by the rubric The Philippine government has been relatively successful in doing initiatives for the implementation of laws that look after the welfare of senior citizens. However , with the current COVID-19 crisis, there resurfaced unspoken issues that led to exacerbation of the conditions of vulnerable groups of the society including the aged group Many working senior citizens, especially those from the poor segment were estimated to have been deprved of their income because of the COVID-19. A result from the 2018 Longitudinal Study of Ageing and Health in the Philippines showed that 46 percent of the senior citizen population lives below the poverty line. The gender lens further disclosed that 57 percent of the men work as compared to 39 percent of the women within this aged group. Moreover, while 42 percent of the senior citizens have a pension, only half declared pension as their most essential income source with comparable levels for both men and women (Cruz et al., 2018). When translating these data to the current situation, it is evident that especially the very poor and women senior citizens would most likely be affected. Furthermore, there were also issues of senior citizens suffering from a scarcity of food and medicine as they lingered indoors during the COVID-19 quarantine. While the crisis administrators develop policies to address the basic needs of senior citizens, a substantial number of this vulnerable group has been barely surviving in circumstances made more unendurable by the quarantine (Binay, 2020) This condition is reflected in the words of a senior citizen who expressed in a media interview that since the quarantine, the government has offered not enough assistance. She mentioned needs such as medicines and face masks which she cannot afford. There were also instances when quarantine guidelines are unclear and caused confusion, making access to food and other basic commodities even more difficult (Paul, 2020). This challenging situation of senior citizens during the COVID-19 crisis is compounded by the inadequacy of living space for physical distancing Perez (2020) of the Commission on Population and Development analyzed the living space Filipinos have and whether physical distancing is possible. Basing on the statistics, it was found out that a​