The seventh congress of the RIPUAM (Red Iberoamericana of Universitarios Programs con Adulto Mayores) started in Santiago de Chile on Thursday, October 25, 2018 at the University of the Third Age of the Pontifical Catholic University of Santiago with the Director of SENAMA Gladys Gonzales, the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Eduardo Valenzuela, the Director of the University of the Third Age Macarena Rojas and the Independent Expert of the United Nations for the Rights of the Elderly, Rosa Kornfeld-Matte.