Velhice e fisioterapia: um projeto terapêutico singular

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Marina Vieira da
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/12574
• topic: Fisioterapia; Fisioterapeuta; Velhice; Fisioterapia para idosos; Physiotherapy; Physiotherapist; Old age; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL

Analyze the elderly subject is only in the biological treat it without understanding the concrete structure it represents. Thus to focus attention only on statistics does not allow it to be understood in all its complexity. The study shows the importance of the physiotherapist to have expertise in geriatrics, and especially in gerontology, and thus develop the capacity to assist the elderly not only in fighting the changes characteristic of aging or to chronic degenerative diseases, but to become so that the disease, even limits, not to take the opportunities to live other things in life. The physical therapist should instruct the elderly not to devote their attention exclusively to impossibilities arising from old age or to chronic degenerative diseases, but to develop strategies to reinvent it in this stage of life