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One hundred twenty two older adults were interviewed at Lima city with the purpose of identify main factors associated to life satisfaction. For this, it was built a seven levels scale (resentment, satisfaction of life, older adult punishment, dependence by disability, social support, prosocial friendly identity, antisocial friendly identity). The results pointed out that socio demographic features of sample was similar to the national and international older adults population. By other hand, it was found that interviewed old people has a high life satisfaction; nevertheless they point out to have a high level of dissatisfaction en aspects such as body weakness, feelings of been given up by relatives and loneliness or been hopeless. In addition, it was found that resentment was the first factor associated to life satisfaction, follow by level of instruction, received social support, psychoactive substances consumption, family ill treating and friendly amountThis journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.