Cambios en la capacidad funcional y calidad de vida de adultos mayores institucionalizados en Pereira que realizaron actividad física recreativa durante el 2010

Cambios en la capacidad funcional y calidad de vida de adultos mayores institucionalizados en Pereira que realizaron actividad física recreativa durante el 2010
Author: Evelyn Dayana Chica Ríos
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2011
Genre:
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El presente trabajo es una investigación explicativa observacional analítica de tendencia longitudinal, donde se recolectaron datos para conocer los cambios en la capacidad funcional y calidad de vida de adultos mayores institucionalizados en Pereira, que realizaron actividad física recreativa durante el 2010. Se validaron 3 instrumentos que fueron aplicados por un encuestador con una muestra poblacional de total n=85 A.M. El primer instrumento fue el INDICE DE BARTHEL que permite Valorar la capacidad de una persona para realizar de forma dependiente o independiente10 actividades básicas de la vida diaria; el segundo instrumento fue la ESCALA DE TINNETI, La cual verificó a través de dos subescalas la marcha y el equilibrio (estático y dinámico). El tercer instrumento fue el SF-36 que permitió valorar la calidad de vida de los A.M institucionalizados. Se evaluaron los resultados obtenidos en la primera toma y segunda toma de los tres instrumentos utilizados en esta investigación, primero fueron tabulados en una matriz en Excel y posteriormente analizados con el programa estadístico SPSS, para evaluar la diferencia entre las dos tomas mediante la prueba de rangos Wilcoxon, donde el lapso de actividades físicas recreativas produjeron en estimulo leve dentro de la población, ya que se presentaron unos ligeros cambios evidenciados en las dos tomas, pero que no fueron significativos para la prueba de Wilcoxon. Se encontró que en la población investigada existen niveles muy altos de dependencia para las actividades básicas de la vida diaria, y esto puede ser a causa de la inactividad a la que se han sometidos los A.M encuestados, también se observó un continuo deterioro en las habilidades para la marcha y el equilibrio, ya que no existen propuestas de actividad física recreativa donde los A.M ejerciten su cuerpo. Finalmente, el SF-36 Para la calidad de vida, los AM Consideran que su salud en general es buena, pero se observa que su salud emocional y física no es tan...

La Actividad física con caballos como medio terapéutico para mejorar la capacidad funcional y la calidad de vida de las personas de la Tercera Edad y de las afectadas por el síndrome de fibromialgia

La Actividad física con caballos como medio terapéutico para mejorar la capacidad funcional y la calidad de vida de las personas de la Tercera Edad y de las afectadas por el síndrome de fibromialgia
Author: José Blázquez Miret
Publisher:
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2015
Genre:
ISBN: 9788449053832

El envejecimiento supone una disminución de la capacidad funcional de las personas y por consiguiente un deterioro en su calidad de vida. Del mismo modo ocurre a las personas afectadas por Fibromialgia, que por su sintomatología presentan una realidad análoga a las personas mayores en cuanto a funcionalidad se refiere. La práctica de ejercicio físico de forma continuada es una herramienta eficaz para paliar los efectos de la vejez y de la fibromialgia. En este estudio se plantea la realización de un programa de actividad física utilizando el caballo como medio de implementación, el Método Centauro, para así obtener mejoras en la capacidad funcional, las cuales repercutirán a su vez en una mejora de la calidad de vida del paciente. Los objetivos de este trabajo son: Analizar los cambios en relación a la condición física funcional y psicológica, y en la mejora de la calidad de vida de las personas de la tercera edad y de las afectadas por el síndrome de fibromialgia en base a la aplicación del Método Centauro. Validar el programa de formación–intervención Método Centauro en grupos de población con afectaciones diferentes. Métodos: La capacidad funcional se midió mediante una batería de test físicos (6MWT, Sit and Reach modificado, Timed Get Up and Go, Up and Down Stairs, Handgrip, Purdue Pegboard), y psicológicos (GDS, POMS, CUBRECAVI, BDI, FHAQ, STAI). Los participantes, tanto en personas mayores como en Fibromialgia, fueron repartidos aleatoriamente en dos grupos, uno experimental que realizó el programa de intervención de 32 sesiones Método Centauro, y otro control que no realizó ningún tipo de actividad extra programada. Se realizaron mediciones pretest y postest. Resultados: En el grupo de personas mayores, a excepción de la dinamometría con la mano izquierda, en todos los test de valoración se obtuvieron mejoras, destacando las obtenidas en el ámbito de la condición psicológica. Para el grupo de intervención de fibromialgia, en todos los ámbitos, sin excepción, se obtuvieron beneficios, destacando también los obtenidos en la condición psicológica. Conclusiones: Se puede concluir, a la luz de los resultados obtenidos, que se han conseguido los objetivos planteados en el estudio. Las mejoras alcanzadas para los dos grupos en todos los ámbitos de valoración demuestran la eficacia del método Centauro, el cual se desarrolla bajo las premisas de mejora de la condición física, perceptivo-motriz y psicológica. A su vez ha quedado validado como programa de formación intervención tanto en las personas mayores como en el grupo de fibromialgia, pues conduce a una mejora generalizada desde una situación de Preintervención a una situación de Postintervención. Esta mejora indudablemente va vinculada al programa de formación intervención método Centauro, ya que en el grupo control, donde no se aplica la intervención, no existe mejoría general de los resultados en el tiempo. Cabe señalar que la validación se da por los mismos resultados positivos obtenidos y referenciados en los correspondientes apartados. Se habla, por tanto, de una validación experimental, por comprobación de la práctica. Asimismo, y a la vista de los resultados, el método Centauro se muestra como una propuesta útil también desde una dimensión didáctico pedagógica, en tanto que se plantean objetivos, se interviene con actividades específicas, y se evalúa todo el proceso y los resultados a través de diferentes pruebas.

The Tourist Gaze

The Tourist Gaze
Author: John Urry
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2002-03-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780761973478

This is a fully revised edition of the groundbreaking study on tourism, which was originally published in 1990. The original chapters have been empirically updated and many new research findings incorporated and evaluated. This Second Edition deepens our understanding of how the tourist gaze orders and regulates the relationship with the tourist environment, demarcating the `other′ and identifying the `out-of-the-ordinary′. It elucidates the relationship between tourism and embodiment and elaborates on the connections between mobility as a mark of modern and postmodern experience and the attraction of tourism as a lifestyle choice. The result is a book that builds on the proven strengths of the first edition and revitalizes the argument to address the needs of researchers and students in the new century. Praise for the First Edition: `There is much to be applauded here...this is an engaging and thought provoking book which should be read by those interested in advertising and the changing nature of contemporary culture′ - Contemporary Sociology `The book is written in a very accessible style that would serve as a good point of entry for anyone interested in leisure, tourism, and cultural change in contemporary societies. The scope of Urry′s book is breathtaking, one is left with a feeling of coming to terms with the complex set of social relations that are tourism, both in their production and consumption′ - Planning Practice and Research

Political Ecology of Tourism

Political Ecology of Tourism
Author: Mary Mostafanezhad
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2016-01-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317509358

Why has political ecology been assigned so little attention in tourism studies, despite its broad and critical interrogation of environment and politics? As the first full-length treatment of a political ecology of tourism, the collection addresses this lacuna and calls for the further establishment of this emerging interdisciplinary subfield. Drawing on recent trends in geography, anthropology, and environmental and tourism studies, Political Ecology of Tourism: Communities, Power and the Environment employs a political ecology approach to the analysis of tourism through three interrelated themes: Communities and Power, Conservation and Control, and Development and Conflict. While geographically broad in scope—with chapters that span Central and South America to Africa, and South, Southeast, and East Asia to Europe and Greenland—the collection illustrates how tourism-related environmental challenges are shared across prodigious geographical distances, while also attending to the nuanced ways they materialize in local contexts and therefore demand the historically situated, place-based and multi-scalar approach of political ecology. This collection advances our understanding of the role of political, economic and environmental concerns in tourism practice. It offers readers a political ecology framework from which to address tourism-related issues and themes such as development, identity politics, environmental subjectivities, environmental degradation, land and resources conflict, and indigenous ecologies. Finally, the collection is bookended by a pair of essays from two of the most distinguished scholars working in the subfield: Rosaleen Duffy (foreword) and James Igoe (afterword). This collection will be valuable reading for scholars and practitioners alike who share a critical interest in the intersection of tourism, politics and the environment

Nurse Practitioner's Business Practice and Legal Guide

Nurse Practitioner's Business Practice and Legal Guide
Author: Carolyn Buppert
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2004
Genre: Law
ISBN:

"Every NP should own a copy of this book!" - The Nurse Practitioner Journal Written by a nurse practitioner who is also a practicing attorney, Nurse Practitioner's Business Practice and Legal Guide, Second Edition provides the unique point of view of an author who knows what legal and business problems arise on a daily basis. The second edition to this best seller will teach you: --How to write an effective business plan using the most up-to-date information and planning strategies-How to avoid malpractice and other lawsuits-What rights an employed NP has-What to do if rejected for payment-How to effectively negotiate managed care contracts-How to get the highest marks on performance report cards-What must take place for NPs to become primary care providers-What decisions need to be made before starting a practice-How to handle patient flow-And more!Nurse practitioners and NP students who read this book will have a solid foundation of knowledge with which they may continue their practice confidently and effectively, whether it be in developing an employment relationship, undertaking a business venture, giving testimony before the state legislature, composing a letter to an insurance company about an unpaid bill, teaching at a school of nursing, or serving as president of a state or national organization.

Romancing the Wild

Romancing the Wild
Author: Robert Fletcher
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2014-02-24
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 082237689X

The worldwide development of ecotourism—including adventures such as mountain climbing and whitewater rafting, as well as more pedestrian pursuits such as birdwatching—has been extensively studied, but until now little attention has been paid to why vacationers choose to take part in what are often physically and emotionally strenuous endeavors. Drawing on ethnographic research and his own experiences working as an ecotour guide throughout the United States and Latin America, Robert Fletcher argues that participation in rigorous outdoor activities resonates with the particular cultural values of the white, upper-middle-class Westerners who are the majority of ecotourists. Navigating 13,000-foot mountain peaks or treacherous river rapids demands deferral of gratification, perseverance through suffering, and a willingness to assume risks in pursuit of continuous progress. In this way, characteristics originally cultivated for professional success have been transferred to the leisure realm at a moment when traditional avenues for achievement in the public sphere seem largely exhausted. At the same time, ecotourism provides a temporary escape from the ostensible ills of modern society by offering a transcendent "wilderness" experience that contrasts with the indoor, sedentary, mental labor characteristically performed by white-collar workers.

The Eighteenth-Century Revolution in Spain

The Eighteenth-Century Revolution in Spain
Author: Richard Herr
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 501
Release: 2015-12-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1400875242

The first part of the book is an able survey of 'the Enlightenment’ in eighteenth-century Spain. The second part, on ’the Revolution,’ is something more. Originally published in 1958. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Law, Space, and the Geographies of Power

Law, Space, and the Geographies of Power
Author: Nicholas K. Blomley
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 1994-09-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780898624960

This illuminating new volume offers a ground-breaking exploration into the intriguing and politically significant relationship between law and geography. Nicholas K. Blomley asserts that space and law, rather than being fixed, objective categories, have a crucial bearing on the deployment of power and the structuring of social life. Arguing that the geographies of law can be powerful--even oppressive--in combination with their implied claims concerning social life, Blomley clearly demonstrates how, over the last two centuries, legal judgment has entailed the adjudication of issues of power and space.

Planetary Gentrification

Planetary Gentrification
Author: Loretta Lees
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2016-05-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1509505881

This is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, proclamations rang out that gentrification had gone global. But what do we mean by 'gentrification' today? How can we compare 'gentrification' in New York and London with that in Shanghai, Johannesburg, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro? This book argues that gentrification is one of the most significant and socially unjust processes affecting cities worldwide today, and one that demands renewed critical assessment. Drawing on the 'new' comparative urbanism and writings on planetary urbanization, the authors undertake a much-needed transurban analysis underpinned by a critical political economy approach. Looking beyond the usual gentrification suspects in Europe and North America to non-Western cases, from slum gentrification to mega-displacement, they show that gentrification has unfolded at a planetary scale, but it has not assumed a North to South or West to East trajectory the story is much more complex than that. Rich with empirical detail, yet wide-ranging, Planetary Gentrification unhinges, unsettles and provincializes Western notions of urban development. It will be invaluable to students and scholars interested in the future of cities and the production of a truly global urban studies, and equally importantly to all those committed to social justice in cities.