Ageism in pandemia’s times

The aim of this paper is to present some comments about ageism, and how it has been present along these months. Among the ageists´ manifestacions I underline the initial suggestion that COVID-19 is exclusively a disease of older adults in order to calm yunger people anxiety; the question of the nursing-homes and beside that, the social and health out of respect for residents along the pandemic period; the elders’ discrimination in guides and protocols; the negative image of this colective transmitted from the media; the absence of older adults in every forum of general discusión and in the decision committees; its absence in research protocols including clinical trials. Even the negative autoperception of the elders in this matter could be read as a pattern of ageism. Lastly, we offer some reflexion, open questions and suggestions on topìc.