Use of physical exercise for prophylactic purposes in the elderly

Abstract

A comprehensive search was conducted on the use of physical exercise applied to the elderly. We will briefly explain how physical exercise helps the elderly in terms of the health-disease process. The aim was to describe how physical exercise helps the older adult physically and emotionally. Reference was made to the group of older adults corresponding to the care area of the Martha Martínez Figuera Polyclinic South, where 137 people over 60 years of age were chosen, of whom 60 were women and 77 men. It is known that the elderly tend to be affected by most chronic diseases because they have a weakened immune system as they age, so the use of physical exercise should provide a solution in terms of improving the health of people of this age. This is how the concepts to be used and the methods used to finally understand how the use of physical exercise really helps the older adult were presented in a direct way. A retrospective longitudinal descriptive study was carried out to better understand the problem posed and its possible solution, in the universe taken from 137 people in the southern care area, that is, belonging to the Policlínico Sur Martha Martínez Figuera.