Manualidades, cocina, siembra de plantas... estas fueron algunas de las habilidades que un grupo de adultos mayores rescataron para ponerse un negocito que complementara su pensión o bien les ayudara a superar el estrés, la soledad o simplemente a mantenerse activos, ocupados y socializar.

Mr. José Quirós Ramírez, a neighbor of Coronado, had a meal service whose business fell with the pandemic.However, motivated by his own neighbors, he determined to put a sale of 10 types of ceviche that distributes every 15 days among its customers.This 66 -year -old man prepares 50 kilos that he distributes among his WhatsApps list, which gets more and more."We are not sick as the World Health Organization (WHO) is healthy and active": adds Don José.

Meanwhile, Don Carlos Elizondo Cascante was left without work six years ago and with the benefits he made the decision to buy two sewing and installing machines, along with Doña Marielos Fallas, his wife, a workshop of pajamas and clothing for children whoSells in the flea market of the Municipality of San José and in its house.

With this tallercito and with the daily work and exercise routine this couple enjoys the day."We have to hide from La Pelona," he said.

They have exploited their culinary, artistic, manual and agricultural qualities...And now they bless their customers with a diversity of very high quality products that they offer through various strategies: home delivery, sales in their own room, on main roads, at fairs and even on special orders.

Social networks, WhatsApps groups, different home delivery firms, Correos de Costa Rica and even Sinpe have become true allies of this group of older adults who has managed to overcome the vicissitudes filed on the road.

These people were beaten by the pandemic;However, they reinvented and rethink their line of work.His ventures were compiled by the National Hospital of Geriatrics and Gerontology (HNGG), which will disseminate their stories in the social networks of that medical center and La Nación collected the experiences of 10 of them.

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Mrs. María Eugenia Páez Mora, is not far behind.After pensioners and with the eagerness to stay busy and socialize he entered the courses of the National Learning Institute (INA), Technological of Costa Rica and the University of Costa Rica, where she learned various techniques to work in glass, mismatch of metal, embroidery and now is dedicated to jewelry and fine jewelry with semi -precious stones.She sells them at various fairs and belongs to a group of artisans from the canton of homeless.

The story of Doña Evel Quesada Muñoz, 71 is also impressive.At bread he managed to get his three children forward, after they became adults he began to enjoy walks and walks, however, the pandemic cut that wings and Doña Evel used that time to carve a historic door and other products of wood.

Additionally, he continues to make the bread and also jam."We must prevent the old man from reaching us," says Doña Evel.

Doña Luz María Fallas Pereira is a neighbor of the canton of La Unión.He was dedicated to the care of older adults and for six months he rethink his activity to take care of “La Sabrosita”, a business of preparation of all kinds of foods, whose clients come to pick them up at home because he does not have a distribution system.Prepare casseroles of various flavors, typical roosters, rice with milk, breakfast, lunches and any food that your customers request.

Margarita Barahona changed her after her 90 -year -old suffered a fall that increased her fragility for what she had to take care of her care.

His mother's situation filled her with tension and it was when he realized that he had to do something to free himself from stress.There arose the idea of making silk scarves that sells them on social networks, which are customized because it confesses that there is no equal scarf and that is the difference of any other product that is sold in the market.

There is also the case of Doña Annie Jiménez Soto, who worked in real estate, but once he pensioned he managed to establish an entrepreneurship with crafts: he makes pillows, tablecloths, corda cloths and all kinds of home ornament.

"We must stay busy.We cannot sit down to wait for life to happen ”: Doña Annie warns.

Róger Abarca, 79, to complement his pension of the non -contributory regime (RNC), established a furniture store behind his home in the hope of Acosta and there, along with his son, he manufactures rustic furniture such as banks, dining gamesAnd even musical instruments such as guitars, mandolinas and at this time a marimba has in production.

These furniture makes them commission;However, when the sale is very bad, Acosta's main road goes to offer its products.

Doña Carmen Bolaños Sanabria considers that the key for an older adult is well is staying busy, being very active and not sitting in front of the TV watching life spends.This neighbor of Greece was the seamstress of the neighborhood, but with the emergence of American clothing sales, this business vanished so it opted for an entrepreneurship in which it now surprises customers with the preparation of clothes for girls, ornamentsCooking, tablecloths and sheets.

Georgina Vargas León has a very particular business: cultivates succulent that sells them in the corridor of her room in poves and precisely does it to hang out because she confesses that she does not want the days to watch television."Older adults must be active and find how to entertain us," he says.

All these people have as a common denominator: they get up early, do not like to watch television, do some physical activity such as swimming, dancing, walking and as the case of Don Róger Abarca, still climbs the trees and roofs.

They agree that the key to getting ahead is to stay busy, active with a good attitude and living and enjoying the day without thinking about tomorrow.For the Milena Bolaño Sánchez, director of the HNGG, is precisely these messages from older adults that is conceived as healthy aging.