Social Ethno-gerontology. The old age in indigenous contexts.

Abstract

The article discusses the topic of old age in indigenous contexts, especially which develops in poor rural environments and high social marginalization. Before this sociocultural peculiarity, old age and the ageing of the population experienced differentially which in the rest of national society. To learn how the elderly people live in current indigenous contexts, we rely on the social Ethno-gerontology as a theoretical tool, which will allow us to compare, understand and explain the indigenous old-age pensions in situations of high marginalization and extreme poverty as they experience the zoques of Chiapas Northwest