Aging in Honduras: a sociodemographic characterization of the Elderly

Abstract

The aging is a phenomenon tied to the called demographic transition that showed evidence in the decline rates of mortality, fecundity and its effects in the population structure. Some elements like the access of health services, advances in medicine, high educative level, and environmental sanitation are facts that have a relationship with the increase of life´s hope, and index turn the gradual aging of population.

The socio demographic characters of older population in Honduras reflect that this group is in the conditions of vulnerability. In this study context the vulnerability is really clear in the low educative levels, high participation in the labor market tied in some way to the low social security coverage. Dates showed an increase of longevity in Hondurans population, however, this has not to be translating in living more years, but also in have a life with quality.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/pdac.v8i0.921

Revista Población y Desarrollo: Argonautas y Caminantes, Vol. 8, 2012 pp.83-93