I think the life and a dignified old age is a fundamental human right.

However, it is no secret to anyone that the less developed countries are less able to ensure this
right to their citizens, since the socioeconomic conditions and public policies are not the best.

In 2014, at a ONU forum in Mexico, the issues that have been part of the international debate on
the human rights of older persons were addressed: guarantees and the enactment of specific
protection laws; awareness and inclusion of older people in society; care and its challenges for
social protection in the context of ageing; autonomy in decision-making and the limitations that
derive from the restriction that affects the legal capacity of older persons.

Now, I think that as government agents and society it is essential to evaluate the number of
existing variables around the protection of these people: economic capacity of families, older
adults in conditions of abandonment, older adults without family or economic resources. I believe
that in cases like these it is the government that should take care of them, our taxes should be of
some use.

For those families that have sufficient economic resources to ensure the quality of life of that older
adult, the obligation should be theirs and not the government's.

One of the main conclusions would be that the rights of the elderly demand specific disturbances
from the state and that we must move away as soon as possible from the contemplative vision of
the demographic reality that we are experiencing.