Envejecimiento Activo En Las Personas Mayores En El Hogar De La Esperanza Del Municipio De Armenia (Q)
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González Hidalgo, Juan D. | 2019-03-15
Over the years, older people decrease their ability to perform basic activities of daily life, which
leads to greater dependence and diminishes the conditions of autonomy and therefore affects their
state of health. In this project, an internship modality, a program of physical and recreational
activities for active aging in institutionalized elderly people was established in a center for the
well-being of the elderly in the city of Armenia Quindío, planned based on an initial diagnosis
and the particular needs found .
The program involved 18 elderly people, aged between 60 and 93 years, who did not perform any
physical activity, and the results obtained showed a favorable evolution in terms of the
functionality referred to the activities of daily life, which allows to conclude that the proposed
intervention allowed to improve and, in specific cases, recover functional abilities in front of
essential activities for personal care and autonomy. Likewise, the results obtained in other
contexts are remarkable, evidencing better processes of socialization, conservation of cognitive
and emotional capacities. These changes allowed to encourage physical activity and recreation, as
a habit of healthy living, which allows for an active, dignified and quality of life aging.
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