Violence against the aged woman: silenced voices

This article aims to approach the scientific production on the theme violence against women and elderly in their silence in the face of such a condition, reinforcing the discussion on this theme. For it was done a qualitative approach being a bibliographical revision research. Aging was stated as a current population phenomenon, according to the analysis of the statistical data that presents the increase of the number of people with sixty years old and more. Also, this study emphasizes some aspects of the aging process in Brazil and the female characteristic of the aging, through the consideration that is larger the number of elder woman than elder man. And finally, it approaches the subject of the violence against the elder woman and the actions of the social equipments to soften that sad reality.