The thesis research entitled "INFLUENCE OF THE ROLE OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN THE SOCIAL PARTICIPATION OF THE ELDERLY ADULTS USERS OF THE PENSION 65 PROGRAM OF THE DISTRICT OF GUADALUPE, LA LIBERTAD 2017", arises from the need to analyze the role played by local government in the face of the limited social participation of older adults, such as the institution responsible for ensuring the integral development of this vulnerable population and making the activities included in the policies of the protection to the elderly, which they have a duty to fulfill. In this research, the methods used were Inductive - deductive, ethnographic and statistical; the techniques used were observation, interview, survey and file review; Likewise, the instruments used were the observation register, interview records, questionnaire and documents. With the approach of this problematic reality, it is tried t...