Peripheral old age. Aging, disability and rurality

Abstract

This article proposes a comprehensive analysis for the study of physical disability in male aging. First, by delimiting a contextual framework, for its study, which from rurality, requires specific criteria on how certain old age is lived; in intersection with the social vulnerability that attests to a gap of cumulative disadvantages propitiated by marginalization, mobility and health problems in a certain age group. But also, a reflexive framework that gender, as an analytical category accounts for the sociocultural construction of male identity, which from historicity and socialization are embodied in the men's bodies; but that in an environment of acquired disability provides crucial elements to contribute to the reflections of masculinity as a public health problem. From these analytical frameworks, an empirical exercise was proposed from the narratives of older men with physical disabilities in order to give some first reflexive approaches from the criteria that violate and condition male gender learning.