Trajectories of women and their situation of dependency during old age from the decolonial perspective

Abstract

The document addresses the analysis of the life trajectories in a dependency environment of older women in urban and rural contexts in northeastern Mexico, focusing on the heterogeneity present between the groups depending on the context of rural / urban residence, as well as the generation in which they are located. For this study, the results were carried out with 351 women aged 65 and over with at least one type of dependency, this means, they require support from a third party to carry out activities related to daily life. The analysis seeks to reveal from the de-colonial and intercultural perspective the particularities of the groups, highlighting the socio-historical, political, economic and cultural construction in old age and the way in which autonomy / functionality is conceptualized and evidenced in its limitation or decrease (economic dependencies, affective, instrumental, advanced and functional), The ways in which social ties are woven and support networks are established .From the perspective that predominates or considered unique, it tends to consider the way of aging as one, forgetting the differences between the groups, omitting the particularities present between groups by gender, race, class, which constitute social inequalities.