Exercício verde e envelhecimento: relações do idoso em experiências lúdicas na natureza

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Ano de defesa: 2019
Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues, Leidjane Florentino
Orientador(a): Rodrigues, Cae
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Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
Idioma: por
Instituição de defesa: Não Informado pela instituição
Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente
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Link de acesso: http://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/10986
Resumo: Exercise, understood in its broader concept of intentionality towards health, can bring many benefits to people who adopt it as an alternative to a healthier and more active life. Considering the current urban predominance of the world population, it is safe to say that most people live surrounded by buildings and asphalt, whether in their homes, work, school and exercise, mainly in gyms specialized in different types of exercises. The predominance of indoor experiences that are deprived of sunlight during work and non-work hours corroborate for potentially unhealthy conditions. In addition, they compromise the experience of movement, as well as interactions with nature. Considering the above, the objective of this research is to analyze how green exercise, understood as exercise with intentionality towards the interaction with nature, contributes to the decrease of the deleterious effects of aging and to the improvement of the essential aspects of “living-with”. Potential aspects related to the conservation of nature are also analyzed, especially the incorporation of ecological precepts in the movement habitus of senior citizens who experience green exercises regularly. Phenomenology is used as methodological framework, more especifically, the Situated Phenomenon method, where senior citizens were participants and protagonists of the research. Among the possibilities of the research is the potential drive to the creation of public policies that motivate experiences of green exercise, enabling a “life of quality