THE PERCEPTION OF SELF ESTEEMEIN THE ELDERLY AND HYDROTHERAPY

Abstract

ABSTRACT:The present work has as objective to verify the perception of the elderly due to the practice of hydrotherapy related to the self esteem. As a base for the study, the person evaluated through the research was composed by three women all with ages from 65 to 67. It should be said that the dimension of the universe of the research as well as its popupation was chosen intentionally because all of them show the necessary characteristics to have an opinion on the issue. All the interviewees live in the town of São Bento do Sul, Santa Catarina and did the physical activity at Fisiocenter – Clinica de Reabilitação Ltda, also in this municipality. On this research, was made a semi structured interview to target the objectives proposed before. The interviews were made at the same place of the hydrotherapy activities after the classes. For the theoretical knowledge, it was made a bibliographical research that covered theoretically all the searching process and data researched analyses.At the end of this work, it has been considered really important for the elderly and the up keeping and improvement of their self esteem, the practice of physical activities, mainly the Hydrotherapy. Through the results obtained by the field and also by the bibliographical research, it was possible to state that there is a straight improvement between Hydrotherapy and the perception of self esteem in the Elderly.