Demarchi, Juan MilaCosta, Regione Maria Rodrigues Terto2018-09-052021-10-132018-09-052021-10-132018-07-26COSTA, Regione Maria Rodrigues Terto. Capacidade funcional e qualidade de vida de idosos submetidos a um programa de exercícios psicomotores. 2018. 19f. Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso (Especialização em Psicomotricidade Clínica e Escolar) - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Departamento de Educação Física, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Física. Natal, RN, 2018.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/44103The psychomotor despite being considered a new science which aims at increasing the capacity of the subject's interaction with the environment through the body activity and your symbolic expression, assumes an important role in promoting elderly health through different dimensions (educational and preventive reeducativas), providing psychosocial benefits and, consequently, quality of life. The objective of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of a program of psychomotor exercises on functional capacity and quality of life of seniors. With the elderly population in the IFRN, will be recruited 60 seniors who will be divided into two groups, the intervention Group with Psychomotor Exercises (GIEP) and control group (GC). As measuring instruments that will be applied before, during and after the intervention will use the Katz index to assess functional capacity and the SF-36 quality of life. Soon after, the results will be presented through descriptive analysis (mean, standard deviation, median, minimum and maximum). In addition, One Way Anova Kruskal Wallis or and finally apply the delta Δ of variance (%).openAccessCapacidade funcionalQualidade de vidaIdososPsicomotricidadepostGraduateThesisCNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::EDUCACAO FISICA