Articles

Financing Long-Term Care in Mexico: Public Spending, Household Costs and the Care Funding Gap
Mexico is beginning to make care expenditure more visible, but financing long-term support remains distributed across public programs, social security institutions, household spending and extensive unpaid family care. This article examines how Mexico currently finances care, what the new federal care budget framework changes, why income support is not the same as funded long-term care, and what a sustainable financing architecture will require as population aging accelerates. Read more...
Who Provides Long-Term Care in Mexico? Families, Communities, Government and the Private Sector
Long-term care in Mexico is delivered through a mixed and uneven landscape in which families remain the dominant source of support alongside public institutions, community organizations, nonprofit services and a developing private market. This article examines who actually provides care, how responsibilities shift as dependency increases, where quality and workforce risks emerge, and what Mexico’s evolving care system must do to create a more sustainable balance between households and formal provision. Read more...
Building Mexico’s National and Progressive Care System: From Policy Ambition to Delivery
Mexico is moving from recognition of care as a public and social responsibility toward the practical construction of a National and Progressive Care System. This article examines how federal coordination, state diagnostics, care infrastructure, financing, workforce, information, rights and quality assurance must connect if national ambition is to become dependable local support for older people, disabled people, families and caregivers. Read more...
Mexico’s Aging Population: Demographic Change, Dependency and the Growing Demand for Care
Mexico’s demographic transition will reshape demand for health care, long-term support, family caregiving, housing and community services over the coming decades. This article examines how longer lives, lower fertility, rising functional need, territorial inequality and changing household capacity interact—and why Mexico must translate population projections into practical decisions about prevention, workforce, financing, local infrastructure and the emerging National and Progressive Care System. Read more...
How Mexico’s Aging and Long-Term Care System Works: Policy, Services and Responsibilities
Mexico is building a more explicit national approach to care while long-term support still depends heavily on families, fragmented health and social-assistance structures, state and local capacity, and mixed public, nonprofit and private provision. This article explains how responsibilities, funding, home-based health care, older-person policy, disability support and emerging care-system reforms connect—and what stronger integration will require in practice. Read more...