Modernity/coloniality: a look at human aging

The whole world is aging and life expectancy is increasing. The modification of man and the achievement of a longer life, despite being announced as an important fact for humanity, comes up against the obstacles of prejudice and exclusion of the elderly. With this, it is necessary to understand the place of the elderly in modernity and the difficulty of the elderly person's protagonism in an excluding capitalist society. Modernity has contributed to longevity, but the socioeconomic standards imposed by it, end up rendering the capabilities of the elderly invisibility. From a descriptive and exploratory research, with a bibliographic review, the study sought to reflect on aging, with a view to deconstructing and decolonizing the excluding character that old age acquired with modernity and the capitalist system.