The objectives of this law shall be:
- a)To guarantee older adults equality of opportunity and dignified life in all areas.
- b)To guarantee the active participation of older adults in the formulation and application of policies that affect them.
- c)To promote the permanence of older adults in their family and community nucleus.
- d)To foster forms of organization and participation for older adults that allow the country to take advantage of the e) To promote, coordinate, guide, expand, articulate, and strengthen the Progressive Care Network for the Comprehensive Care of Older Adults in Costa Rica, through the National System of Care and Support for Older Adults (Sistema Nacional de Cuidados y Apoyos a Personas Adultas Mayores, Sinca), with the purpose of ensuring comprehensive and inter-institutional care for older adults by public and private, physical and legal entities, and to ensure the proper functioning of programs and services intended for this population, considering various levels of dependency and the situation of vulnerability they face.
(As amended above by Article 31 of the law Creation of the National System of Care and Support for Older Adults and Older Persons in Situations of Dependency (Sinca), No. 10192 of April 28, 2022) f) To guarantee the social protection and security of older adults.
- h)To promote a dignified representation and image of older adults (As added above by Article 1 of the Law for the updating of the representative symbol of older adults and its declaration of public interest, No. 10766 of October 21, 2025)
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