Percepção de saúde e envelhecimento de profissionais de Educação Física

Abstract

Aging is a phenomenon in the life process marked by specific biological, psychological and social changes, associated with the passage of time that can not be situated at a precise moment in life, since statistical data contribute to the study, but they do not replace the reflection extracted from the testimonies that translate the uniqueness of how each one experiences this process. In Brazil, there was a significant drop in fertility levels, resulting in a lower number of children and adolescents in parallel with the continuous increase in the elderly population. Based on this, the objective of this study was to analyze the health and aging perception of Physical Education professionals who work in bodybuilding academies. This research presents a quantitative-qualitative, cross-sectional and exploratory character, with a monographic approach method. As a data collection instrument, the Aging Perceptions Questionnaire (QPE) was used, which gave rise to four categories of analysis, which, in turn, grouped the questions according to their proximity to their content. We conclude that there is a perception of aging, but not all the changes that occur are related, in the perception of the respondents, to the fact that they are aging. This fact may suggest a condition of negation of aging itself, since aging presupposes the recognition of natural losses inherent to the biopsychosocial cycle that constitutes the human being (sic).