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Texas and Mexico share a 1,200 mile border and a common history.
Nearly 40% of all Texans are of Latino origin, and most of these are Mexican-Americans.
Aging on both sides of the border is a growing concern
presenting officials in both the U.S. and Mexico problems and opportunities.
AARP and the LBJ School of Public Affairs recently partnered to present two reports
that discuss these concerns and issue policy recommendations on how to resolve this issue.
The key takeaways are that the population of Mexico is aging extremely rapidly.
That the most vulnerable populations in Mexico are among older people.
Mexico has an opportunity in the next 30 years or so to be able to address the challenges
of aging population through policy solutions that involve government, the private sector and also researchers.
There's so much we still don't know about this population,
and it's really important that more research go into this.
And I think it's also sort of a nudge to both employers and businesses in Mexico,
but also towards the Mexican government to do more research to be able to
come up with these solutions.
There are many sources of vulnerability in the populations, both in Mexico
as well as Latinos of Mexican origin in the United States.
What we're trying to do is to identify ways in which we can remedy some of these problems
in either preventing the onset of disability, trying to at least slow down
that rate of disability onset,
and also identify, for those who have been afflicted with these conditions,
to identify the most culturally competent and cost-effective options
in care and living arrangements.