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essay #3 senior citizens tanya- ayleen

enior citizens are people

who are over 65 years.

When they are retired and

stop working, they participate in

some recreational activities. They are

citizens of great value to society

since their life experiences enrich

future generations. Senior citizens in

Costa Rica have rights, benefits, and

reasons to be alive.

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Senior citizens in Costa Rica have

legal tools to defend their rights. The

#7935 law establishes the rights and

benefits for people who are 65 years and

over. In this law, they have the right to

health, education, artistic activities,

sports, recreation, housing, social

security, labor, and it establishes

sanctions for people or institutions that

violate their rights. These laws detail the

importance of recognizing the dignity of

elders and encourage society as a whole

to be aware of healthy life patterns and

eliminate stereotypes or myths of aging

and old age. This law, guarantees equal

opportunities and a life worthy to elders.

Senior citizens have benefits like a

decent pension, public transportation,

discounts in drugstores, entertainment,

recreation, hospitals, hosting, immediate

emergency, preventive, medical and

rehabilitation hospital care, social

assistance in case of unemployment,

non-discrimination in employment and

equal rights with other workers, the right

to have a job appropriate to their age,

preferential treatment in all

administrative processes, access to a

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essay #3 senior citizens tanya- ayleen

substitute home or other alternatives for

care, psycho-social and legal protection

to elderly adults affected by physical,

sexual, psychological and economic

violence. All these benefits try to give

the best treatment and quality of life

which is an essential part of society.

Old age can be a time for new

opportunities, productivity, and the

development of skills and knowledge.

Elderly people must turn away

depression or sadness. Their life should

allow aid to certain important

necessitates, for example, elders can

have some distraction in the household

such as listening to music, painting,

playing cards, or domino or outdoor

activities for example, goings to the

cinema or the theatre, goings out with

friends, goings to the park, or reading a

newspaper. Senior citizens are very

valuable people in society and must be

taken care in the best way. They are

people who have many reasons to

continue living, as there are many

activities that can be made when they

retired. They are people who deserve to

live happily enjoying this new phase of

their lives calmly and well appreciated.

These people are an important part of

society. For this reason, we, the young

people, must give better opportunities

and better care to them. Every person in

some moment will be an elder and will

need to be cared by the rest of people.

Today we are here thanks to elderly

people that worked when they were

young to give us the best kind of life.

They deserve the best conditions to live,

and we can do that. Only we can care

and offer a happier life to our senior

citizens, they deserve it.