Población adulta mayor en la agenda de políticas de Ecuador: Una aproximación desde el neoinstitucionalismo

Abstract

The challenges of the demographic transition require urgent State actions that meet the needs and demands of the population aged 65 and over. This article addresses the insertion of the problems of the older adult population in the policy agenda of the Ecuadorian State. For this purpose, a qualitative orientation is followed, under the theoretical framework of neoinstitutionalism. For the analysis, a review was made of the trajectory of state action in the recent history of the nation, in which three major facets of the agenda were identified: minimal early insertion, neoliberal opening and recognition of rights. The main conclusion is that it is a symbolic agenda, affected by a sort of institutional ageism, which places the problems of the elderly in a peripheral position in Ecuadorian politics, despite the great normative platform that the country has and a governmental discourse of broad recognition of this group.