Plan of physical exercises for the incorporation of the hypertensive older adult to the physical activity

Abstract

The cardiovascular illnesses have become the first cause of death in all the countries of the world, they occupy the leadership of mortality in the current world. The investigation was guided to design a plan of physical exercises for the incorporation of the hypertension older adult to the physical activity in the community “El Tablón” from Cumanayagua municipality. The type of design used on the study is not experimental descriptive transeccional, for it was worked with a population of 85 older adults, of which was select via non probabilistic intentional sampling and even with inclusion approaches, a sample of 25 older adults, from them 21 are females and 4 males with average ages between the 60 and 79 years. To fulfill the proposed objectives, we were applied the different methods and instruments such as the theoretical methods for example the historical-logical, the analytic-synthetic, the inductive-deductive and the empiric level, also the analysis of documents, the interview and the approach of specialists. The diagnosis of the current state of the incorporation of the hypertensive older adult to the physical activity facilitated to define the lower incorporation to the classes, sustained in the ignorance about the importance that has the realization of physical exercises for the health, the lack of motivation and difficulties with the personnel responsible for the Program of attention to the older adult. Starting from the approach of the specialists the effectiveness of the plan of physical exercises was verified for the incorporation from the hypertensive older adult to the physical activity.