| | |  Health & Beauty | July 2008 
Federal Government Creates State-of-the-Art Institute to Provide Care for Senior Citizens
 Presidencia de la República
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| | Access to health is an elementary means of ensuring justice and a necessary condition for living better, states President Calderón. | | |
Mexico City - President Felipe Calderón signed a decree to create the National Geriatrics Institute, which will contribute to improving the health conditions and well-being of senior citizens and place Mexico at the forefront of medical ailments in this sector of the population.
During an event held at the Health Secretariat, President Felipe Calderón stated that access to health is a crucial means of ensuring justice and an essential condition for enabling Mexicans to live better, thereby confirming Federal Government's commitment to the well-being of senior citizens.
Accompanied by Health Secretary José Ángel Córdova Villalobos and Director of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), Juan Molinar Horcasitas, the President explained that the new institution has three lines of action:
First, its main task will be to research all the chronic degenerative disorders affecting senior citizens, in order to help prevent, identify and cure them.
Second, it will improve public policies in the area since on the basis of the knowledge created by this research, the Institute will propose innovations and reforms of the National Health System.
And third, it will create human resources through the development of highly specialized professionals who will implement the knowledge they have acquired, as a result of which they will work in conjunction with higher education institutions in the field of geriatrics.
President Calderón stated that the rise in the average age of Mexicans will also increase the frequency of chronic degenerative illnesses, which are not only more difficult to cure but also require expensive medical care.
Now, declared the president, the most widespread illnesses are derived from problems such as diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disorders. “Most of these diseases are preventable, and it is there we will have to focus our main research, prevention, treatment and communication efforts,” he explained.
Lastly, President Calderón declared that together with security, health is the area that has registered the largest budget increase during this administration, which has translated into programs to benefit this sector, such as the economic assistance for senior citizens through the 70 or Over Program, coverage for which now includes over a million and a half beneficiaries in rural settings so far this year. |
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