46% of older adults have income below the poverty line: Deputy Adriana Hernández

Morelia, Mich. – The local deputy, Adriana Hernández Íñiguez, pointed out that according to 2020 figures, 46 percent of the population aged 65 or older in Mexico, had an income below the income poverty line, while only a quarter of the population had a retirement account or AFORE and the average monetary value of this perception per person per month was 7,300 pesos. Likewise, just over half of older adults had non-contributory pension income on average of one thousand 292 pesos per person per month, “amounts that, we must accept, are insufficient to live with dignity,” according to a statement.
This during the presentation of the paper “Abuse Prevention Strategies in Older Adults”, given by Damon J. Bullok, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Western New Mexico.
Hernández Íñiguez said that the lack of figures on this phenomenon “places Mexico in a situation of darkness that we must transcend, so it becomes essential that institutions such as the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System offer statistics that illustrate these facts. It is also essential that prosecutors provide us with an X-ray in order to assess their capacity to investigate and punish such abominable crimes.”
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And he ended by commenting that events like this serve to make visible the problems that have remained “in the dark”; and affirmed that legislation will be legislated in this matter.
During his presentation, the speaker pointed out that older adults are frequent victims of abuses that result in the dispossession of their heritage, or of various mistreatments such as insults, blows, isolation or abuses of various kinds, among which we can mention those of a sexual nature.
Present during the presentation were Mario Alberto García Herrera, Human Rights Prosecutor of the Attorney General’s Office of Michoacán; Gaudencio Anaya
Sández, Director of Public Health of the Ministry of Health in the state; Roberto Ramírez, President of the Citizen Foundation for the Integral Development of the State of Michoacán (FUCIDIM); Natalia Salinas Bravo, Director of the UNIVA campus La Piedad; as well as legislators Eréndira Isauro, María de la Luz Núñez, Luz García, Ivonne Pantoja and Gloria Tapia; and Deputy Jesús Hernández.

Original source in Spanish