| Summary: | The article presents the results of a literature review whose objective was to produce a summary and analysis on diversity in the gerontological field in Latin America and the Caribbean. Studies carried out between 2010 and 2021 on the aging experiences of older people with disabilities, members of the LGBT community, migrants, and Indigenous peoples were reviewed. The literature review was guided by the SALSA (Search, AppraisaL, Synthesis and Analysis) method. The results were analyzed by group, showing central themes for each one: for the disability group, limitations in old age as generators of deterioration and decline, making social participation impossible; for the LGBT group, the weight of social norms that restrict the expression of dissident sexual and gender identities; for the migration group, the intersection with the theme of care and the ambivalences linked to a binational life course; and for the Indigenous group, the tensions between the worldview of First Nations people and the cultural changes impacting their social role. Transversal discursive axes were identified in the corpus, highlighting the unequal and exclusionary old age that many people experience at the same time as the capacity for agency, reinvention, and resistance that these elderly people manifest in their daily practices. El artículo presenta los resultados de una revisión bibliográfica cuyo objetivo fue producir un estado del arte sobre la diversidad en el campo gerontológico en América Latina y el Caribe. Se revisaron estudios realizados entre el 2010 y 2021, sobre las experiencias de envejecimiento de personas mayores con discapacidad, LGTB, migrantes y de los pueblos originarios. La revisión bibliográfica fue guiada por el método SALSA (Search, AppraisaL, Synthesis and Analysis). Los resultados fueron analizados por grupo, mostrando para cada uno temas centrales: para el grupo discapacidad, las limitaciones en la vejez como generadoras de deterioro y declive imposibilitando la participación social; para el grupo LGTB, el ...
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