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

• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues, Leidjane Florentino
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFS
• Texto Completo: http://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/10986
• topic: Idosos; Qualidade de vida; Promoção de saúde; Ecomotricidade; Terceira idade; Welfare; Third age; Quality of life; Ecomotricity; OUTROS

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