Promoción de la actividad física dirigido a los adultos mayores del “Centro de Desarrollo Integral Adulto Mayor San Luis” cantón Riobamba, provincia de Chimborazo

Abstract

The objective of the present degree work was to implement and develop a program in the Elderly Integral Center San Luis, in order to raise awareness of elderly characteristics in order to evaluate and train them, to promote this work we went to the place for four months in which the first step to be made was to interview the elderly to investigate their lifestyle. The dialogue was the essential tool since through it we could know several socio-demographic and technical characteristics, our approach was framed in identifying the age of these people, their occupations, level of knowledge, activities they performed and their health status. Our workshops were attended by 60 older adults of which 35% were men, and 65% were women of this group, 43% were between 66 and 70 years old, followed by adults over 60 and 65 years old who told us that they could take success the program, the older adults said to us that in the vast majority they only attended school and therefore their occupation was to be housewives in the case of women, as men were engaged in agriculture and Commerce. These data concerned us a bit and it would be difficult to instruct and explain the importance of physical activities.