Abstract: Theory and research results about the structure of social representations have been built usually from the study of isolated representations The studies aiming at identifying structural relations involving two or more representations are more recent In the literature, different terms have been employed to refer to inter-related social representation sets, managed or not by a superior ideological stance; in those cases, we refer to representation families, systems or networks In this context, there are coordination relations, in which associations can be identified at the same level of a social thinking architecture Traditionally, the studies of representations in conjunction – presenting element intersections at the level of their cores or object labels – have been privileged The present research aims at contributing to the knowledge about disjoint representations When, at an inter-representation level, there are two or more representation structures linked by relations between cognems or between object-label words, we propose the name of representational system to the macrostructure that is formed, with relations formalized by the basic cognitive schemes model The main research aim was to identify relations among elements of different social representations, submitting to test the existence of connection points among representations at the same level of the social thinking architecture It is a model that conceives inter-representation relations at the level of cognems All the studies concerned the investigation of a representational system including the social representation on aging Most of the studies were conducted with university undergraduate samples from Padua, Italy – and Studies 1-A and 1-B also had a Brazilian sample of undergraduates and an Italian sample of elderly people The first studies had the purpose of characterizing the representation system After a preliminary qualitative study conducted with interviews with people from different age groups, which has allowed to identify the cognems of the social representation on aging, Studies 1-A and 1-B were comparative investigations that characterized the structural status of the elements of that representation and also structural differences linked to age groups and cultural context Study 2 was a survey marked by paired evaluations of proximity between objects linked to the aging theme which allowed the identification of three social representations highly connected to aging, by means prototypical and similarity analyses: death, health and family Study 3 had a mixed nature, with characteristics of both a quasi-experiment and a survey It provided the characterization of the structures of the chosen social representations in the system and also assessed the intensity of relations between social objects in that system Additionally, participants evaluated pairs of elements of the representation on aging and the other representations and indicated if they perceived a connection or not, enabling the identification of possible connection points After the identification of those possible relationships, the focus shifted to testing the plausibility of a model for connection points including a bridge relation between those elements Study 4 consisted of context manipulations of emphasis or relativization of a peripheral element of the social representation on health that was connected to elements from the social representation on aging It was observed that a context change relative to a peripheral element of a representation interferes on the activation of schemes relative to a second representation, regardless of their structural status; it is a first empirical evidence of the validity of a theoretical conception of coordination relations involving disjoint representations of a same system by means of connection points Finally, Studies 5-A and 5-B aimed at verifying if denying or confirming the information of cognems from connection points would be associated with activation differences of semantic and evaluative relations (bridge relations) with elements connected to them, from the representation on aging Differences were identified in the sense that compatibility with the content of the manipulated cognem was associated with higher valences of at least one of the hyperconnectors As a conclusion, evidence was found of relations among social representations at the level of their elements, and the conception of a theoretical model of inter-representation connection points presented promising results The model contributes to the understanding of mechanisms of association of social representations in disjunction and also opens possibilities for application especially concerning social representation dynamics, which might also take representation systems into account