Correlation between physical activity and balance control in elderly

The adult age is a process which causes some changes in physical T psychological and social aspects. These changes result in decrease in the quality of life and making dependency. The adult age is an important part of the human society and the established change changes are influential on the elderly life style, his associates and the whole society. According to the importance of the topic and as little study has been done in this field, the purpose of the study is to consider the physical activity and balance controlling in elderly. Methods & Materials: This study has been done as sectional descriptive- analytic using data obtained from the health condition analyzing plan of the elderly of Amir kola in 90 – 91. The degree of the physical activity was measured using standard questionnaire of the physical activity, PASE, the degree of inability in performing the activities was measured by and the amount of balance controlling was measured by leaf balance test. Then, the information was analyzed using chi-square and t-test in SPSS.The degree of P, less than 0.05 was considered meaningful. 1614 elderly were analyzed in this study that of these numbers. 883 persons were males and 733 persons were females. The average age of men was 69.96 7.68 and the average age of the women was 62.66 ±102. Besides, the relation the degree of physical activity and balance control in under studying people was statistically significant and direct (p=0/000). the results of this study indicate the existence of significant relation between performance inability and physical activity and balance control in elderly. The result of this study demonstrated that it is possible to improve the balance controlling in elderly by planning to increase the physical activity.