PHOTO ESSAY: AP photos capture elderly Cubans coping with deepening economic crisis
Cuba's elderly population is struggling with the deepening economic crisis, with many living on meager pensions and facing cuts to subsidized goods. The Church of the Holy Spirit in Old Havana provides meals to nearly 50 elderly residents three times a week.
Cuba's elderly are bearing the heaviest burden of the island's deepening economic crisis. By the end of 2024, nearly 26% of Cuba's population was age 60 or older. Many are former state workers living on meager pensions and facing cuts to long-subsidized goods. The Church of the Holy Spirit in Old Havana provides meals to nearly 50 elderly residents three times a week. Carmen Casado, an 84-year-old retired chemical engineer, depends on the meals because her monthly pension is worth about $4. She has no children and lives alone in a deteriorating 19th-century building.
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