النشاط البدني والوقاية من أمراض الشيخوخة

Abstract EN

The 21st century is witnessing the phenomenon of population aging, which means an increase in the proportion of the elderly in the world as a result of the decline in fertility rates and the increase in average lifespan, which is expected to reach 76 years in 2050 because of the elimination of various diseases that killed people at an early age, and the improvement of the standard of living and health, that is, the development of preventive and curative medicine, which leads to the existence of a large group of the elderly (the elderly) requiring health, social and psychological care.

Many people link old age and disease and consider the stage of old age as “pathological stage”, and this link is relative, although the chances of infection with diseases increase in the old age with the presence of many diseases that affect the elderly due to old age and are called “diseases of aging”, we will try through this article to search for the effect of physical activity of the elderly on their health and their prevention against aging diseases in order to achieve their independence, physical and psychological care.