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Abstract Nowadays, for the first time in history, most people can expect to live beyond 60 years. In low and middle income countries, this is largely due to the significant reduction of mortality in the early stages of life, especially during childhood and birth, and from infectious diseases. In high-income countries, the sustained increase in life expectancy today is owing to the decline of mortality among the elderly. In this regard, the number of inhabitants in Latin America will be rising by mid-2016 to 625 million people; six million more than there would be estimated by mid-2015. According to the latest population projections of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 680 million people by 2025 and 779 million in 2050 will be reached. And in the European Union, a population increase of 5 per cent is expected: from 507 million by 2013, until 526 million by 2050, achieving the maximum.In line with this new global approach, a diachronic study with graduate students attending theOfficial Master’s Degree in Gerontology, Direction and Management of Gerontology Centres at Pablo de Olavide University, during 2012-2013 to 2015-2016 academic years, was realized. Through a descriptive and mixed methods research -with techniques and processes of data reduction, coding, interpretation and inference, etc.-, the students’ design and elaboration of clouds of ideas -developed with social software- about concepts related to the ageing process, from the contents taught in the theoretical module and the internship in different gerontology centres, were analysed.

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