Silver poverty, or poverty among the elderly. This is the focus chosen by Caritas for its tenth annual report, which outlines its commitment through 2025 to address the needs of increasingly vulnerable people.

The first figure concerns the increase in the number of seniors seeking assistance from Caritas offices throughout Sardinia. In 2025, 1,558 people over 65 received assistance, a 76.8% increase compared to 2015, when 881 people requested assistance.
The data are at the heart of the presentation of the 21st report on poverty and social exclusion and the 10th annual report 2026, at the headquarters of the Province of Oristano.

"I was thinking the other day, looking around, that there are more elderly people around us than young people," says Antonello Mura, bishop of Nuoro and Lanusei and president of the Sardinian Episcopal Conference. "This requires a great deal of care, a great deal of attention: we need to move forward so that no one feels excluded from this social situation, which seems to have no need of people with common sense, history, or memory."

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