POTENCIALIDADES Y FRAGILIDADES EN EL ENVEJECER.

Demographic ageing is one of the most relevant social and political challenges in recent decades. There are several approaches to the fact of ageing, depending on the emphasis on biomedical, social or political aspects. The approach to ageing from a social construction perspective implies thinking about how we get older and how we achieve it with quality of life. In an unequal society in relation to gender relations, the fact of ageing is not confronted in the same way as women or men. In addition, in the study of ageing are important different social variables, health and physical environment. These variables converge in the social construction of an object of study that over the years has been diversifying its axis according to devote a greater emphasis to the fragility or, on the contrary, to the potentiality that encloses aging well, with dignity, with decency. The paradigm of care as a model that reflects on the daily maintenance of the world, our bodies, our environment, our lives, would contribute to the concept of active ageing, with the view on the notion of human vulnerability constituent and therefore considering care as a complex and transversal process that contributes to the quality of life of all. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]