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In this article we analyze the meaning of old age in the reports from people with 60 years or older, settled in Conceição Colony, a rural settlement located in the municipality of Nioaque, in Mato Grosso do Sul. That place has more than 200 people living the phase of old age, involved with working hours in the lots, building projects to stay in them, cherished by sociability with the neighborhood. In everyday arrangements, work is the main link that keeps them in the earth, connected by a set of elements that intertwine with each other, configured in belonging to the earth, in the relations of interaction between people, in the making of the productive process and in future projects. In 128 lots there is the presence of people in the phase of old age, doing the management the lots and showing resistance to live in the settlement.