Abstract

Far from those descriptions emanating from the social sciences that show aging of the population as a phenomenon without history and apolitical, this article shows how the process of aging is due to accounting practices, management and population control that started with the 1925 Political Constitution in Chile. Today, people aged 60 and over is a target of governmental policies aiming toward social and economic security, under a biopolitical rationality towards the health of an aged body.

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