Academias ao Ar Livre como política pública de promoção da saúde do idoso, através do exercício físico, na cidade do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

Objectives: to analyze the objectives and motivations when implementing AAL as public policy for the health of the elderly; identify and analyze the training routine of students attending the AAL / RAL; as a case study, to identify the profile of the public user of the RAL / UERJ and their opinion about the program in general. Methodology: For the objectives and motivations when implementing AAL in Rio de Janeiro, a bibliographic review was performed on the occurrence of AALs in Brazil; for the training routine of AAL / RAL / RJ users, a descriptive research of the documentary type was done; to identify the socioeconomic profile of the users of RAL / UERJ their opinion about the program as a whole, a socioeconomic questionnaire was applied. For the anthropometric data, the variables body mass, height, BMI, WHR and% fat were measured. The data were processed in Microsoft Excel 2010 software. Results and discussion: AAL / RAL-UERJ provided physical and intellectual improvement according to its users. The proper structure of training offers security to the practitioners, favoring the students' adherence to the program. Most AAL / RAL-UERJ participants were women (81%). The main reason that got into the program was to improve the conditioning. The positive and negative points attributed to the program were cleaning, teachers and trainees. Regarding the benefits of the program, for the majority, the performance of the ADLs was improved, assigning a note 10. Regarding the preference of the equipment, aerobics (ski and walking simulator) were the most voted among women and the multiexercise among men. Among women, the stretcher and the multi-excercise were the most voted as minor deprived and, among men, was the rower. As for anthropometric data, women, compared to men, had the highest BMI, WHR and% fat.