COVID-19 and older adults: between quarantine and economic vulnerability

Abstract

This study aimed to identify job offers that consider people over 60 years of age to work in a context where the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) modified the social and economic behavior of society, cataloging elderlyadultsas a sector with high risk of illness and were socially and economically isolated. The study carried out during 2020 indicates that, of 750 vacancies offered in Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche, Mexico, only 17 considered the possibility of conducting a job interview with people with a maximum age of 60 years. The low probability of being hired and confined due to the pandemic creates economic vulnerability of older adults who depend on government support or family members to survive.