Socio-demographic aspects and walking as a means of locomotion in the elderly
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.24302/sma.v8i0.1743Abstract
This study aims to associate walking in locomotion as a way to displacement and demographic aspects. Cross-sectional study conducted with 213 individuals living in the urban area of the city of Rio do Sul - Santa Catarina. Sociodemographic aspects were evaluated through identification form and the walk in the displacement through the International Questionnaire of Physical Activity, long version, applied in the form of an interview. The prevalence of active elderly people in walking as a form of displacement was low (28.2%). There was a significant association between age (p= 0,021), family arrangement (p= 0,001) and walking. It is concluded that the largest proportion of physically active elderly people on the walking distance is between those who live alone and that this prevalence tends to reduce in older people.
Keywords: Physical activity. Aging. Demography.