07/09/2026
Nigeria Is Ageing. Is Our Healthcare System Ready?
The question is no longer whether Nigeria will age. It's whether our healthcare system will be ready when it does.
More Nigerians are living longer — a genuine achievement. But longer lives require a care system built for the realities of ageing, and most families are navigating that reality without one. The extended family structure that once absorbed elder care has thinned. Households are smaller. Adult children move to cities, or abroad, for work. The people once available to help have shrunk in number, even as the need has grown.
Being "ready" means proper planning, standardized caregiver training, and a reward system that treats caregiving as a real career. It also means recognizing something we rarely connect: a young population in need of work, and a growing elderly population in need of skilled care, are the same opportunity.
In Issue 005 of Executive Insight, I look honestly at what Nigeria's ageing population actually demands — from families, from agencies, and from the country as a whole.
Read the full article here: September 7, 2026. Issue
Nigeria Is Ageing. Is Our Healthcare System Ready?
The question is no longer whether Nigeria will age. It's whether our healthcare system will be ready when it does.
More Nigerians are living longer — a genuine achievement. But longer lives require a care system built for the realities of ageing, and most families are navigating that reality without one. The extended family structure that once absorbed elder care has thinned. Households are smaller. Adult children move to cities, or abroad, for work. The people once available to help have shrunk in number, even as the need has grown.
Being "ready" means proper planning, standardized caregiver training, and a reward system that treats caregiving as a real career. It also means recognizing something we rarely connect: a young population in need of work, and a growing elderly population in need of skilled care, are the same opportunity.
In Issue 005 of Executive Insight, I look honestly at what Nigeria's ageing population actually demands — from families, from agencies, and from the country as a whole.
Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/ewXbAbXp