This article makes a critical and systematic review of 72 qualitative and quantitative investigations related to violence against older women in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) between 2000 and 2020, with the aim of assessing the extent to which they managed to analyse this phenomenon from an intersectional approach – linked to gender and age at the same time – and what their gaps, limitations and main findings are. This research shows that the study on this topic has been dominated by conceptual frameworks of “elder adult abuse” and “violence against women”, as well as by a medical and quantitative perspective that does not allow a comprehensive understanding of this problem, as they address violence in a fragmented way. In comparison, a novel group of social studies used an intersectional conceptual framework addressing violence from a vital course approach and a phenomenological perspective. In conclusion, it is suggested that intersectional studies, although still scarce in LAC, have great potential for understanding the cumulative nature and interconnectedness between different experiences of abuse, as well as exploring older women’s belief systems, their daily experiences of abuse, and their dilemmas, barriers and strategies to seek help. This perspective will allow the construction of theory adapted to our cultural contexts in an inductive and contextualised evidence-based way is a powerful weapon to counter faults in previous theoretical frameworks.