For society, it is becoming more and more important that its members reach a healthy old age, for this, it is required the disease prevention as indispensable mechanism to ensure that goal and a greater knowledge of the old age phenomenon. A descriptive exploratory study was carried out between august and october2021 with the aim of analyzing the social conditions and the quality of life of the population of adults of 60 and older than 60 years from the urban area of the district of Santiago, province of Veraguas (Santiago cabecera, Canto del Llano and San Martín de Porres). A random sample of 379 adults was drawn from the target population. The sample was stratified by sex and village. A questionnaire was designed by using close and open questions aim to obtain the necessary information. It turns out that in each village under study between 53% and 57% of the adults surveyed were women and between 47% and 43% men. About 65% of the surveyed are between 60 and 70 years old and about 26% are between 71 and 80 years old. Globally, between 15% and 25% of the adults interviewed had obtained a university degree while between 16% and 20% just obtained a high school diploma. As can be observed, more than 90% of the adult houses had basic services such as availability of drinking water, electricity, and garbage collection. From the analysis it follows that more than a half of the population under study had adequate conditions in their quality of life, considering related factors such as the level of education and housing conditions.
