Background: The World Health Organization mentions that the stress that COVID-19 triggers and confinement are causing a strong psychological impact on societies, due to the relationship made of the binomial pandemic and death. The above exposes the political scenario of COVID-19 for the elderly that once again exhibits the image of the elderly as fragile beings, incapable of thinking and deciding for themselves, who must be cloistered and isolated. However, despite the empirical evidence that shows a vulnerable and at-risk population in the context of the current pandemic, other theoretical views differ and emphasize the strengths that are manifested in this stage of life. Objective: To understand the narrative construction and resilient processes that the older adult population has experienced concerning COVID-19. Special attention was paid to the discourse on psycho-emotional consequences, social beliefs about old age, discrimination, as well as the omissions of human rights and dignity of the elderly. Method: qualitative descriptive cross-sectional ethnomethodological design, with a continuous inclusion sample, corresponding to 15 participants, between 64 and 85 years old, living in Mexico. Results: It was identified that the participating older adults have sufficient psycho-emotional coping resources, due to the efficacy of the regulation of the feelings experienced. However, it is still influenced by the social perception of stereotypes and stigmatization. Conclusions: The results coincide with the postulates of positive psychology and psycho-gerontology regarding the development of capacities and potentialities as a continuous process, and that in older adulthood they become present, thanks to the accumulation of experiences, individual and collective. This underlines the importance of including other ways in which old age is lived and studied, and therefore in the methodologies and proposals for intervention.

El objetivo principal de este estudio fue describir las dimensiones de la escala de Alimentación Emocional de Rojas y García-Méndez, evaluar las diferencias entre hombres y mujeres en alimentación emocional, así como conocer si existe relación entre alimentación emocional con la edad y el peso en población mexicana. Participaron 580 adultos (83% mujeres y 17% hombres) entre 18 y 56 años (M=36.41, DE= 10.89). La medición se realizó a través de la Escala de Alimentación Emocional y su relación con las variables sociodemográficas descritas. Con relación al sexo, son las mujeres quienes mayormente regulan la intensidad o duración de sus emociones por medio de la comida; los hombres muestran mayor cambio en el estado de ánimo antes, durante y después de comer. En las dimensiones familia, indiferencia y cultura, no hay diferencia entre sexo. Con relación al peso, la variable se relaciona de manera positiva con las dimensiones emoción, indiferencia y cultura, mientras que la edad mantiene relaciones negativas con efecto del alimento.

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