Propuesta de un plan de actividad física moderada en adultos mayores sedentarios mediante una revisión sistemática

Abstract

Aging is an irreversible, individual and inevitable process in all human beings that brings several problems at the physiological level, the same ones that are complicated by a sedentary lifestyle because elderly people for different reasons reduce their daily physical activity. For this reason, the project aims to develop a physical activity plan aimed at sedentary elderly men and women aged 65-85 years in the city of Azogues, province of Cañar (Ecuador) to improve their functional independence. The methodology applied in the present work is a systematic review, it is based on articles subtracted from scientific research works that are consulted from digital bases such as: SciELO-Scientific Electronic Library Online, Science Direct, Redalyc and Google Scholar, for the search of articles. , Boolean operators will be used covering related terms such as: “older adult and sedentary lifestyle”, “elderly and physical exercise”, “aging and sedentary lifestyle”, “physical capacities” and “sarcopenia”. The evidence collected from studies shows that non-sedentary older adults have lower rates of: mortality; coronary cardiopathy; hypertension; stroke; type 2 diabetes; colon cancer; breast cancer; improved cardiorespiratory and muscular functions; healthier body mass and composition