Atividade física e promoção da qualidade de vida em idosos da comunidade São Benedito em Campos Gerais

Abstract

The city of Campos Gerais do not offer many options for physical activity for older adults. The few existing shares to happen so disjointed in different spheres of community life, with low levels of professionals involved, and there was a discrepancy in the relationship between the number of elderly living in community and public programs offered, then observing an asymmetry between supply and need. The present work it is a descriptive study, carried out by using literature in journals indexed in the database LILACS, SCIELO, MEDLINE, BVS, ABEn / CEPEn, BDENF and others, addressing the issue of the importance of activity physics in promoting quality of life of older adults.The objective of this study is to compose the territorial diagnosis to enable the implementation of a project of physical activity for older adults in the community enrolled in the Family Health Program (FHP) São Benedito in Campos Gerais. The work is organized by situation analysis of health of the elderly population enrolled at São Benedito and the PSF map of health services focusing on physical activity for older people in the community of São Benedito in Campos Gerais .The search results reported that actions to promote physical activity in PSF are summarized in stretching followed by walking 45 minutes on average, performed during the morning once a week, with the operating group of seniors. It is expected that after this analysis, we can justify with our managers about the importance of implementing policies in place that allow us to offer the elderly the affective conditions for physical activity in family health teams in the city of Campos Gerais, infrastructure and human resources, with searching for a better quality of life for the elderly, because physical activity is intrinsically linked to health promotion.