The institutionalization of dependant adults. Characteristics of the public attention at a national level and in Nuevo León

Abstract

The objective of the present study is to distinguish the social situation of institutionalized dependant adults in Mexico and Nuevo León, for that purpose, various official sources of information were reviewed: corresponding figures to the National Population and Housing Census; General Directorate of Health Information; National Statistical Directory of Economic Units and Expenditure Budget of the Federation from the years 2012 to 2017 and the public spending on health through the platform of the Health Accounts subsystem.. Additionally, we integrated the requested information acquired from the Federal Institute of Access to Information through the transparency platform. Based on the analysis of the collected information, there is a significant neglect on the attention of the dependency in both Mexico and Nuevo León, within a framework of budget reduction that particularly affects older adults whose institutionalization and reception has been derived mainly from Private sphere and charity