Atividade física: uma necessidade para a boa saúde na terceira idade

Kristiane Mesquita Barros Franchi; Renan Magalhães Montenegro Junior

doi:10.5020/928

Physical activity: a necessity for good health in old age

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Kristiane Mesquita Barros Franchi Universidade de Fortaleza
Renan Magalhães Montenegro Junior Universidade de Fortaleza

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https://doi.org/10.5020/928

Keywords:

Atividade física, Terceira idade, Idoso, Qualidade de vida.

Abstract

Elderly population is increasing nowadays, which is attributed to a greater life expectation, probably related to a better control of contagious and chronic diseases, thus leading to the need of changes in social structure, in order to enable those people to have a better quality of life. Physical activity is an important mean of achieving elderly health prevention and promotion throughout its countless benefits. This present study aimed at approaching some aspects of the process of growing old: its epidemiology, the benefits and the importance of health activity for achieving quality of life in old age and the Brazilian public politics directed to this period of life, pointing out the actual need of structuring programs that emphasize the physical activities’ practice, as well as the involvement of health professionals ahead of these actions.

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Author Biographies

Kristiane Mesquita Barros Franchi, Universidade de Fortaleza

Educadora física, professora auxiliar mestra do Curso de Educação Física da Universidade de Fortaleza.

Renan Magalhães Montenegro Junior, Universidade de Fortaleza

Médico endocrinologista, professor Titular do Mestrado em Educação em Saúde, da Universidade de Fortaleza.

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Published

2012-01-04

How to Cite

Franchi, K. M. B., & Montenegro Junior, R. M. (2012). Physical activity: a necessity for good health in old age . Brazilian Journal in Health Promotion, 18(3), 152–156. https://doi.org/10.5020/928

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Vol. 18 No. 3 (2005)

Section

Perspectives and controversies

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