Elderly Population in Costa Rica

Elderly Population in Costa Rica

Dear Editor:

I have been trying to contact to you since 4 weeks ago, but, unfortunately you have not answer my calls, emails or phone messages. That is why I decided to pay an add on your own newspaper asking you responses about your last news about ”The good quality of elderly population in Costa Rica” that you published one month ago.

Relate to this reportage I have to confess you that I feel so disappointed with your professional development. It is not possible that you are lying to the all your readers. The elderly population in Costa Rica according to the last Nation Inform is increasing and it is not decreasing as you said. Currently, there are some 330.000 elderly or senior citizens in the country, but it is estimated that by 2025 there will one million people over the age of 65. It means that our government will not be ready to face this situation and nowadays our hospitals are not working on new programs on senior citizens care.

The unique Hospital in charge of the attention for this population is the Geriatric and Gerontology Raul Blanco Cervantes Hospital located in San Jose. This Medical Center is obsolete and it is not giving the whole attention this population need. My question is what will happen in 10 years when the elderly population is going to rich the higher level of the Costa Rica history? Are our public and health system ready? Obviously it is not!! I firmly ask you to publish again the news but, in this occasion you must say the true. This is the time to wake up our population to work together in building future solutions, remember that we will probably be part of that statistics on 2025 and all that we are doing now will be for ourselves. Please no more lies and no more false news.