Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus is a metabolic disorder that occurs when the pancreas can not produce an adequate amount of insulin that the body requires to function correctly, it is related to an unhealthy lifestyle. This work shows that disease increases over the years, the objective is to analyze the prevalence and morbidity of type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in older adults in Latin America and in the methodology, an explanatory documentary design study was carried out, it was taken from the databases, PubMed, SciELO, Dialnet, Google Scholar, Redalyc, Medigraphic, Elsevier and official websites: WHO, PAHO, MSP, FID, the Boolean terms “and” and “or” which were used, information from the last ten years was included , based on the reviewed invest...