ATHENS Cheap Nike Air VaporMax Flyknit 2.0 , March 23 (Xinhua) -- Each senior citizen in debt laden Greece today has a personal story to tell. The common ground in all narrations is that the six years of deep recession and austerity measures introduced to exit the crisis has made everyday life of Greeks in their older age harder.


Nikos Kostouros, a 84-year-old pensioner lives in a small apartment next to his daughter in the center of Athens. His pension has been cut by 30 percent in recent years, but he doesn't complain.


He has lived the horror of the Nazi occupation in Greece, in his hometown in Tripoli, located in the center of the Peloponnese peninsula when he was a young boy, so he knows from firsthand what hardship means Cheap Nike Air VaporMax Flyknit , he told Xinhua.


"Senior people in Greece today suffer not only because of the health problems they may have, but also from the lack of support from the Greek state. All the benefits and privileges you have worked for all your life have disappeared due to the economic crisis," he said.


He explained that he and his elderly friends are anxious when thinking that they may need to be submitted to hospital when they do not feel well because of the huge shortages in supplies, medicines, personnel and doctors.


"Anxiety and fear prevails. When I meet my friends at the coffeehouse in the morning, they constantly complain about the difficulties they face. We all wonder how much our pensions will be reduced next month and how are we going to manage to pay for our medicines and the basic food at the super market Cheap Nike Air VaporMax Inneva ," he said.


Kostouros said he can handle hardship for himself, but he feels more frustrated when he thinks about the unemployment and the difficulties of younger generations.


Over the past six years about a quarter of Greece's working force is jobless. Unemployment rates, especially among youth, reach 60 percent.


"Before the economic crisis, all the members of my family and the average family had jobs and they helped each other. Now you see young strong men and women, well educated and eager to contribute to society Cheap Nike Air VaporMax Utility , helpless with no job positions depending on the grandparents' pension to cover basic needs," he said.


About 19.3 percent of Greeks today are above 65 years old, according to the national statistics authority ELSTAT.