Avaliação da qualidade de vida de idosos que praticam e não praticam caminhada no Programa Saúde da Família (PSF)

Abstract

This research searched to analyse the benefits in the elderly life`s quality that practice walking in the Health`s Family Program (HFP) and how the physical education`s teacher is important in it cause he`s responsible by all its physical activities. The relevance of this research was performed by treating a recent theme but necessary to the public health, still with the inclusion of the Physical Education in the health center. It had been made a survey from the laws that recognize Physical Education as health´s science. This research used the methodology of the exploratory search conceptualized by Gil (2002), like that seeks to make the study`s object explicit and builder hypotheses. This kind of bibliography seek and case study was made from material already published with scientific data bases, specially books, articles in the internet. By the way, it will be made a field seek, stage after the bibliography`s seek, wich aims to collect data. After checking the data showed that the life`s quality of people who pratice walking is better than of those who don´t pratice it, however it can be different from each one, considering some influences like: education, income, time and frequency. Practice walking regurlaly done by elderly brought many health benefits, resulting reduption of the medicines` consuption and spending money by public health agencies, and promote a marked improvement in their daily activities.