Elderly in Cuba

The regime will recognize up to 10 years of family caregiving as work time for retirement

Alina Bárbara López denounces the arrests of activists while elderly people are fainting due to lack of food and electricity in the midst of summer

"I haven't eaten": the testimony that portrays the abandonment of the elderly in Cuba

Dementia, the disease that is spreading in Cuba

Cuban grandfather, 70 years old: "How can I eat for an entire month with 4,000 pesos?"

Outrage in Camagüey: two elderly individuals live in a collapsed shack without receiving state assistance

Cuban grandfather who makes cages: "Without electricity, I can’t see."

63-year-old woman disappears in Matanzas after heading into the woods to look for charcoal

In Villa Clara, a private business is accused of preventing an elderly woman from paying for two eggs using Transfermóvil

"With the humble and for the humble? The generation that made the most sacrifices feels abandoned by the reforms in Cuba."

Social assistance in Cuba will be adjusted according to each family's income

The regime wants private companies to help support pensioners, the elderly, and social dining facilities

Presbyterian Church USA delivers blocked pensions to 44 Cubans after nearly 65 years

The Odyssey of Cuban Elders: Dining Halls without Gas, Pensioners in Hunger, and Lonely Grandparents

"More Inflated Information": Cubans criticize Cubadebate for praising the Family Care System

"My grandfather turned 88 years old without being able to gather his daughters": Cuban denounces isolation of rural communities in Cienfuegos

Cubans line up at a bank in El Cotorro amid puddles of wastewater

How much does a pension for a retiree in Cuba yield? Influencer conducts an experiment

Private company delivers diapers to hospitals and nursing homes in Sancti Spíritus

Deplorable situation reported at the Elderly Home in Camagüey

Even anger in a line at the bank in Havana: "There's no money, there's nothing, this is over."

Cuban elderly who believed in the Revolution are facing hunger, blackouts, and miserable pensions

"We have to resist": What an elderly woman does to survive the crisis in Cuba

Food donated to a senior citizens' dining hall in Havana

Cuban grandmother, 90 years old: "What worries me the most is all this situation in the country."

Fainting and people going without food: Bishop denounces crisis in Cuba

A Cuban elderly woman receives assistance and shows her refrigerator: "I have the cold at Blanco and Trocadero."

Aracelia Hernández reaches 110 years old, sharp-minded and surrounded by the love of her family in Cárdenas

Private restaurant brings food and joy to the nursing home in Matanzas

They are asking for help for an 85-year-old Cuban grandfather in Camagüey

Forced banking: Central Bank of Cuba insists on digitalizing payments in a country without cash or stable connectivity

Visit to her 105-year-old Cuban great-grandmother in Cuba, and her joy moves everyone: "She is doing great."

“Literally, if you don’t have 3,500 pesos, you die”: Black market for medical supplies reported in Holguín

The odyssey of this Cuban woman to visit her grandpa in the Cuban countryside: "You have brought tears to my eyes."

Severe storm destroys solar panels of parish that supplied food to elderly dining hall in Santiago de Cuba

No glasses or spoons, and the food consists of peas and boiled spaghetti: this is the situation at a shelter in Cuba

"That breaks my heart": The impotence of a Cuban grandmother for families who don't have enough to eat

The monthly postcard in Cuba: elderly people in long lines to collect their pensions

Not even the regime's colonels are safe: an elderly amputee is languishing without medical care in Havana

Mother’s Day in real Cuba: a 77-year-old grandmother from Santiago leaves at dawn to sell okra and survive

Alleged thief ends up tied up by neighbors after being subdued by an elderly man with crutches in Camagüey

How many days does retirement last for a Cuban?: "That money lasts for five, six, or seven days."

Abandoned and in ruins: this is how the Lidia Doce Elderly Home in Bayamo looks

A young Cuban requests help for a prosthesis, and his appeal touches hearts on social media

"Two days more and she would have died": Neighbors rescue abandoned Cuban elderly woman in San Miguel del Padrón

Cuban grandmother is abandoned in San Miguel del Padrón

Beggers at the Matanzas terminal: "They are suffering from severe hunger."

Help from the U.S. makes a new home for grandparents in Santiago de Cuba possible

"After banning private ownership, now it is the only solution": Calzadilla criticizes the regime following the opening of dollar residences

Cuban young women go out to distribute food to those in need on the streets of Cuba: "Real gratitude"

Over a thousand dollars a month: the cost of aging in a private residence in Cuba

Another incident shakes the Cuban Catholic Church: priest in Cienfuegos suffers hip fracture

Why are the elderly the most vulnerable to digital scams in Cuba?

"They are starving to death": the humanitarian crisis that is consuming the elderly in Cuba

Cubans gift a house to a homeless elderly couple in Holguín

The "revolution" and the cult of Fidel: "The most refined scam produced by 20th-century Latin America," analyzes a Cuban academic

Cubans make caldosa for their most in-need neighbors

More than 80 elderly individuals receive assistance at the Cáritas dining hall in Matanzas

Neighbors prevent tragedy in fire in Colón, Matanzas, with elderly woman inside

The foreign press highlights the abandonment of the elderly in Cuba