Activities for elder people and promotion of active aging

Abstract

This work belongs to a project with the title Health and Life, integrated for the professors of Physical Education from the Faculty of Medical Sciences Dr. Eusebio Hernández Pérez and 10 students of the medical sciences from the same place. It contributes to the prevention of demential diseases like Alzheimer, in elder people incorporated to the grandparents´ house Armenio Ferra Pieselli in the community, from Colón municipality. It counts with activities that help them to establish equilibrium adapted during their execution. Among them, they represent communicative dynamicand traditional board games, observing movies, videos, listening to music, listening stories and talks. All oriented to the prevention ofdiseases like the Alzheimer in adults. The lofty incidence of the same one in world is enunciated. It is proven that these activities contribute to enlarge the cognoscitive or cerebral reserve that decreases formation of the senile plates that not only contribute to decrease the risks of suffering the disease, but it is an important point against the stress and the depression. Finally, it stands out that there are means valid for all ages through the practice of the different activities with elder people as an aspiration that the long-lived ones know their strengths and weaknesses. Today is a challenge to motivate the grandparents that these are activities used as means of morerecreation, an anti-elect stress, antidepressant and preventive to potentiate an active aging.