Pantai Jerejak assemblyman Datuk Mohd Rashid Hasnon (left) and Pulau Betong assemblyman Muhamad Farid Saad sharing a banana during lunch break.
THE state government spent RM51,600 to carry out a study on the elderly people in Penang.
State Welfare, Caring Society and Environment Committee chairman Phee Boon Poh (DAP-Sungai Puyu) said the 2013 study, carried out by the Penang Medical College, showed that Penang had the highest ageing rate in the country but he did not provide figures.
