Memory of individuals over 50 years of physical and non-physical exercise

Abstract

Modern Behaviors, changes in the population's age and expressive increase of the elderly has called the attention of the scientific community with regard to promoting the health of this population. Cognitive losses affecting the memory can be normal, that can be worst for your everyday. Knowing the positive increases of the exercises in memory, that study have goal: To compare the memory in people plus of individuals with a mean of 57 ± 2.44 years of age physically active and no physically active. The sample be composing with 63 people for either gender physically active (n = 36) or no ( n = 27) living in the Pirenópolis - GO and Anapolis- GO city. A questionary with relationship with the cognitive memory activity was used, with 36 questions (Pinto, 1990). The results show that the verbal distractions, orientation and repeat behavior domain have significant diferences in the groups (p<0,05) in the maiority questions. In behavior mistakes of everyday, facial memory and recovery of objects even though it does not show significative diferences, the physically active group show best results. This study concluses what the phisically active group have best results be compared with the non phisically active group in the aspects with relationship with memory. The pratice of exercices show most eficiente to increase cognitive responses, assuming like a treatmend non-medicated for that population.