A influência do exercício físico na qualidade de vida do idoso.

Abstract

The world is aging and with the increase of the life expectation considerable changes have happened and even stronger in the amount of the senior population, that fact is due to the reduction of the mortality rates and mainly of the considerable fall of the fecundity. This way, a concern began in guaranteeing a longevity with quality and for that it is known that is essential the adoption of salutary habits, highlighting among them the practice of the physical exercise, that benefits the ones who practice it, because it influences in a general way in the good operation of the organism, being still capable of allowing the promotion and the individual's social interaction. Therefore it was aimed at evaluating the influence of the physical exercise in the quality of the senior's life. It is treated of a field study of exploratory-descriptive type with quanti-qualitative approach, developed with the participation of 25 senior visitors of a project promoted by the Health Technical School of Cajazeiras, with ages between 60 and 85 years-old. The data were collected in the month of November in the current year through a semi-structured interview guide, in which the objective data refer to the characterization of the sample and the subjective ones to the users' opinion. Both were confronted according to the pertinent literature. The main results revealed that the practice of the physical exercise positively influences in the life quality of the third age, because it allows a health improvement, even before very present pathological fragilities, at this time of the life, and it also demonstrated to be capable to enlarge the senior's disposition and agility for they can accomplish their daily activities more easily, allowing an autonomy and independence and still being a supplying mechanism of social integration. This way, it is perceived that the practice of the physical exercise has to be motivated mainly in this phase of the life, seeking to obtain life quality for the seniors.