Compreensão das alterações marcha em idosos

Abstract

Introduction: The aging process, as we understand it, is defined by many gerontologists (gerontologists / elderly specialists) as diminished ability to survive, a dynamic and continuous process resulting in morphological, functional, biochemical and psychological modifications that bring about progressive loss of capacity. O adaptation of the individual to the environment. Methodology: The study is a literature review based on current publications on the above subject in recent years with descriptive analysis. The scientific articles were obtained from searches in the LILACS PUBMED and SCIELO databases from 2015 to 2019 with the following descriptors analysis, gait and elderly, in Portuguese, Spanish and English. Objective: to analyz information about gait in elderly aged living in nursing homes, and specific characterize elderly who presented with changes in gait; collect information about the difficulties encountered in the elderly in relation to gait as well as understand th difficulties presented about the gait of the elderly. Conclusion: Given the above, it appropriate to perform strategies that help initiate a more plausible gait, in this case a an attempt, even to relieve muscle pain in this specific population.