EDUCATION IN ELDERLY PERSONS - Practice of new paths - The growing agi ng population becomes a high-priority topic of the elderly, their duti es and rights. One of the most important is the right to education for which it is necessary to foment defence mechanisms of personal integr ity, especially of those citizens who live in disadvantaged situations . The intention of this book is to discover an educational profile tha t satisfies the necessities and demands of development of the elderly, in order to claim a space that allows the existence of a very well in formed, reflective and critical public option.