The research focused attention on the fundamentals of university extension programs developed by four private universities in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro for the segment aged. He leaned in understanding the socialization process of the management of the aging process, approaching it as a social phenomenon determined by the dynamics of modes of production, and therefore crossed the particularities of social classes. The study focused on the fundamentals of these programs to the process of commercializing university accented with the Higher Education Reform, experienced more intensely from the 1990s, the university extension unchanged from its educational activity in a dynamic sense impoverishment and scrapping it. The qualitative research analyzed the speeches of the coordinators of the programs investigated, showing how they have addressed the aging process as a homogeneous formation and therefore with little contribution to the changing conditions of social reproduction on which the same is true . Likewise, also considered the role of university extension, enabling realize that although this instance linked with teaching and research developed at universities surveyed, it is marked predominantly by the logic of service, by maintaining the experience of a speech Seniors active and healthy by offering courses and activities that legitimize the development of individual responsibility by the aging process.