Idoso e qualidade de vida: um estudo sobre o programa vida ativa da secretaria municipal de esportes de Belo Horizonte

Abstract

The present research is based in the aim of verifying in which level a Política Nacional do Idoso (PNI) would be contributing to the Belo Horizonte local authority directions through the Municipal Sport Ministry in the sense to provide a better quality of life of the elderly population. To do so, there have being achieved a documental analisys envolving programs and actions developed by this Ministry in previous and subsequent periods in relation to the PNI validity. The question of quality of life analysis was based around the Programa Vida Ativa (PVA). In this case, the investigation consisted in the raising of the elder participants of the Program social-economic profile and the appliance of a semi-structured interview to a sample constituted by 28 individuals assisted in centres and long permanence refuge institutions. The achieved results allowed to put in evidence that the PNI would be contributing through the PVA in the sense of directing the municipal local authority influence in favor of an elder assisted by the Program better quality of life, for the fact that the cover of the target -population is still not expressive. Finally, it was in evidence that the PVA have being contributing to a better quality of life for the elder participants refering to the physical health, socialization, autonomy and to the activities of daily living.