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AMAR Canada


Paving the Way for Retirement in Mexico by Dean Unger


Mexico is poised to be the number one retirement location for some 80 million U.S. retirees. Here in Canada, 12 million Canadians are expected to retire in the coming years, and Mexico is going to be the favoured destination. In addition to these stats, there are already more than one million Americans, Canadians and Europeans enjoying full or part time residency in Mexico.


With these numbers in mind and in advance of this coming trend, the Mexican Association of Retirement Communities (AMAR) is doing their part to facilitate and ensure excellent development and delivery standards. “Essentially,” says Lorin Yakiwchuk, AMAR Advisory Board Member, “our objective is to lobby the governments of Mexico, Canada and the United States to educate stakeholders about the potential growth in the industry over the coming years and how it should be structured. Further, AMAR’s mandate is to encourage responsible development of retirement communities and respective housing initiatives in rvsnowbirds.com


Mexico and to offer members and patrons confidence in unsurpassed quality of life and standard of care. To set these international standards and to meet the needs of Canadians who are relocating to Mexico, part of Yakiwchuk’s job is to create standards through research. High in the top-ten things that Canadians are interested in is safety, and that they will receive quality medical care. Two issues that have come under scrutiny of late in the face of misinterpreted statistics.


Part of the challenge facing AMAR is in overcoming the fact that the public profile is higher in places like Vancouver or Seattle than in places like Mexico. To this end, AMAR is working to bring clarity to this recent statistical information that is unfortunately being skewed or misinterpreted. The reason: the media does not balance important demographic information; there is no distinction made between the various geographic regions of Mexico. “Mexico is a large area,” says Yakiwchuk these mis-


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