Idosos: acessibilidade das academias da região central de Trindade-Go

Abstract

This study aims to research how is the situation of accessibility eight downtown fitness centers of Trindade-GO about receiving the senior public. Considering that it is a public that needs special care because of its physical limitations. For this purpose, two questionnaires were applied: the first one composed by open and closed questions asked to elderly people that frequent eight downtown fitness centers, and the second one arranged in a protocol of standards and techniques of ABNT about accessibility for elders in urban spaces and buildings. The sample was constituted by 53 elderly people, of which 45,3% is between 50 and 60 years-old, and 39,6% is between 61 and 70 years-old, and 15,1% is above 71 years-old, and all of those living in that city. Confronting those data, there is an inference that the fitness centers need adapt to receive the senior public, since that the expressive majority was reproved in several inquiry of ABNT/NBR 9050 standards, like staircases without handrail, lack of access ramps, unsuitable toilets, and absence of priority parking.