Ejercicios de fortalecimiento de miembros inferiores en adultos mayores que residen en Hogar San José de la ciudad de Guayaquil.

Abstract

Older adults over the years are prone to experience a series of changes in the body, both physical, physiological, psychological, among them is the alteration of balance and gait, loss of space and time, decrease in muscle strength and ability functional, which means that they cannot carry out their activities independently. Objective: Determine the exercises to strengthen the lower limbs for older adults who reside in Hogar San José in the city of Guayaquil. Methodology: Study with a quantitative approach, descriptive scope, with a crosssectional design; population sample of 55 older adults from Hogar San José, who meet the inclusion criteria to be evaluated using the Tinetti scale, Timed up and Go test and Daniels test. Results: Predominance of the female group with ages between 75 to 84 years, Tinetti Test shows that 47% have a moderate risk of falls, the Timed up and Go Test gave as a result that 50% have frailty and moderate risk, while that in the Daniels scale it is denoted that there is a decrease in muscle strength that there is already a predominance of older adults who qualified grade 3. Conclusion: Those evaluated present a moderate risk of falls, frailty classified as mild and decrease in muscle strength.