“…The agency capacity of the older adult in the face of disasters of natural origin, either individually or collectively, favors adaptation processes through experience and the respective personal meaning of what they have experienced (24,31), actively empowering itself during the aging process. In other words, on a personal level, the older adult can value and make decisions about their lives and know how to act in the face of danger, beyond their family, and, on a social level, allows them to be part of the community, integrating and actively participating in their environment (66)(67)(68). In short, the empowerment of the older adult makes it possible to overcome ageism conceptions of old age, reducing vulnerability indices to the risks generated by climate change, and at the same time, allows them to be recognized as an age group of enormous historical-cultural value for future generations (30,48).…”