Situation of elderly people in Costa Rica

Nowadays, in Costa Rica the elderly population is suffering of discrimination. Their families abandom them in nursering homes and never visit them. This has become a very common thing in costarican society and it has been increasing. Young people don't help them or respect them as part of our history. Elderly people sometimes can't move around the city in a comfortable way, because the city doesn't have the facilities for them in the street or in the bus. People don't value the big knowledge that they have anf unfortunetly they become just a '' burden'' for the society.