This paper aims to critically discuss the concepts and ideas built on the aging process in society, regarding ageing not only as space of limitations and losses, but mainly as a stage of development to open new possibilities for social inclusion. Society must favor this population with several activities, such as physical activity, fundamental to improve the quality of life during the aging process. This text is built in a process of literature review and updating, employing theoretical works on Sociology, Psychology, Medicine, Gerontology and Physical Education, whose aim is to promote an interdisciplinary dialogue between those areas and considering aging as a multi-factorial process, thus establishing itself in addition to a biological reduction. So we believe in the potential of Physical Education for the elderly population, namely, that of an area to conduct connective links between biological and social factors and understand the human in its historical and cultural formation.
Quality of Life; Aging; Motor Activity