Cuban elders

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

Alina Bárbara López reports arrests of activists while elderly individuals are fainting without food or electricity in the midst of summer

Dementia, the disease that is spreading in Cuba

Even the food from social cafeterias cannot be guaranteed by the regime; they depend on private entities

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

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

"It's embarrassing": Huge line of retirees to collect at a bank in Santiago de Cuba

The pain of seeing elderly people waiting in line to collect a salary that is insufficient

Cuban woman reports hardships in Havana hospital: "I cried out of shame, fatigue, helplessness, and sadness."

63-year-old woman disappears in Matanzas after entering the woods to search for charcoal

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

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

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) delivers blocked pensions to 44 Cubans after nearly 65 years

The Odyssey of Cuban Seniors: Dining Rooms without Gas, Pensioners Facing Hunger, and Lonely Grandparents

"Hope dies with them": elderly people in Cuba trapped in bureaucracy to obtain Spanish nationality

The Granma government admits it does not have enough funds to pay over 111,000 retirees

Cuban woman reports bankruptcy of state-owned company: Her 64-year-old father lost his job overnight

The detainees from Alligator Alcatraz are being relocated to other immigration centers, including many elderly Cubans

"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 among puddles of wastewater

How much does a retiree's pension in Cuba amount to? Influencer conducts an experiment

Cáritas Camagüey establishes a dining facility to assist people experiencing homelessness

Until there’s anger in a line at the bank in Havana: “There’s no money, there’s nothing, this is lost.”

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

"We Have to Endure": What an Elderly Woman Does to Survive the Crisis in Cuba

Food donated to an elderly dining facility in Havana

Cuban grandfather: "To survive, to eat, is currently a luxury."

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

Cuban journalist Santiago Ramírez Frías passes away, the voice of Cárdenas radio for more than five decades

Cuban elderly woman receives assistance and shows her refrigerator: "I've got the cold at Blanco and Trocadero."

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

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

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

Cash crisis forces the government to rely on small and medium-sized enterprises to pay pensions in Holguín

Retirees in Holguín are still condemned to humiliating lines to collect their meager pension checks

82-year-old Cuban arrested for selling drugs in a parking lot in Little Havana

Cuban exiled grandfather: "I have achieved the American dream."

Cuban man arrested for collecting benefits from his missing mother in Miami confessed that he was not providing her with proper care

Young Cuban woman raises her voice for 65-year-old neighbor who cares alone for her bedridden son and her sick mother

No cups or spoons, and only beans and boiled spaghetti to eat: this is what a shelter in Cuba is like

Firefighters in Holguín rescue a 73-year-old man trapped by the flooding of the Marañón River

"That breaks my heart": The helplessness of a Cuban grandmother for families who cannot afford to eat

The heartwarming reaction of a Cuban elderly woman receiving a donation of food and a perfume

Authorities in Holguín are searching for the family of an elderly woman who has been missing for six days

A deceased person was left abandoned in the street in El Vedado: "The ambulance came, put a sheet over him, and left."

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

"Two more days 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

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

"After banning the private sector, now it's the only solution": Calzadilla criticizes the regime following the opening of dollar-based residences

Cuban artist surprised with solidarity help: "You have broken my soul."

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

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

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

Cubans gift a house to a couple of homeless elderly people in Holguín

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

Kilometers on foot and hostile terrain: this is how they rescued an elderly man with a hip fracture in Yateras

The first senior citizens' home within a work center in Cuba opens in Villa Clara

Cuban artist moves audiences while discussing poverty, art, and survival in Cuba

They gift a house to three elderly people in Holguín: "I never thought I would have this I've always dreamed of."