Incidencias en el incumplimiento de las garantías constitucionales establecidas en el artículo 35 de la Constitución de la República del Ecuador de las personas adultas mayores con discapacidad privadas de libertad.

Abstract

The present academic research work set out to establish the scope of the legal protection of elderly persons deprived of liberty who suffer from some type of disability in the framework of the Constitutional State of Rights and Justice, for which a qualitative analysis of descriptive and critical approach was made, about the legal institutions that protect older adults with special capacities in their condition of subjects with double vulnerability, from which it was possible to evidence the affectations that this age group is subject to, The deficiencies of the prison system regarding the enjoyment of their specialized rights as a priority sector for the attention of the State, which consists in having their own spaces for gerontological treatment, classification, personnel allocation, participation and taking into account their aspirations and the need for State investment in order to make viable the adequate provision of the rights to social rehabilitation, access to health, diet appropriate to their physiological requirements and family coexistence, which vindicates their dignity as holders of rights.