Capoterapia como lazer e atividade física lúdica para idosos: uma percepção dos capoterapeutas

Abstract

Capotherapy fundamentals are based on the ludic aspect as essential to senior people’s engagement in physical activity in their leisure time. The goal of this study was to identify a Capotherapy group’s perception about the benefits that activity gives to senior people. The research, both exploratory and descriptive, with a qualitative approach, dealt with 11 capotherapysts, through semi-structured interviews; treatment of data included transcription and categorization of the interviews and content analysis. The categories and respective subcategories were: Psychological Dimension: selfesteem and self-efficacy; Physical Dimension: physiological well-being and physical ability; Sociability: travel and solidarity; Ludicity: musicality and memory. Capotherapy, as a physical and ludic activity, improves many aspects of senior people’s lives in their leisure time.