Long live all the time does not mean a healthy life. Women than men for a long time are living with health problems to have, especially cardiovascular diseases and cancer. And access to health services for the elderly woman is problematic. This in front of some obstacles are linked to gender. Women's education, especially in the elderly, according to men is significantly low. According to State Institute of Statistics 2000 data 19.4% of women in our country is not literate, the rate of 6.1% for men in this case. All illiterate population over age 65 is not 24% or 74% that are women. At the same time, old women than old men are poor and lack social protection. “Feminization of poverty”.

The feminization of poverty is a change in the levels of poverty biased against women or female headed households. More specifically, it is an increase in the difference in the levels of poverty among women and men or among female versus male and couple headed households. It can also mean an increase of the role that gender inequalities have as a determinant of poverty, which would characterize a feminization of the causes of poverty.