Condiciones del sistema de cuidado de mujeres adultas mayores con discapacidad en tres territorios de Ecuador: Caso San Cristóbal, Galápagos en el año 2026.

Abstract

This research aims to understand the perceptions and knowledge of older adult women in situations of disability regarding public family and community care systems in three territories of Ecuador Galapagos, Guayaquil and Santa Elena also to identify the institutions or programs and learn about their experiences regarding their self care. This research was conducted using a qualitative approach methodology where we worked with the following techniques of focus groups and interviews obtaining information that accessibility continues to be a reactive adjustment not a universal design principle which continues to be a structural barrier for women with disabilities. Additionally, care is always organized around women aunts’ granddaughters or nieces who take on this responsibility along with a significant emotional burden. This feminization of care far from being a choice responds to gender patterns that are reproduced from generation to generation and that the public system has not managed to transform.