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COVID-19 and social isolation: the consequences of not exercising for older adults’ health

2020; UNIVERSIDADE EST.PAULISTA JÚLIO DE MESQUITA FILHO; Volume: 26; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s1980-65742020000400170

1980-6574

Bruno Teixeira Barbosa, Edson Silva‐Filho, Amilton da Cruz Santos, Maria do Socorro Brasileiro-Santos,

COVID-19 and Mental Health

COVID-19 pandemic has required social isolation to prevent the virus from spreading. Initially, the elderly were the most affected by the novel coronavirus. However, the virus spread out worldwide, affecting all age groups. The elderly are commonly affected by several chronic diseases, and as a consequence of social isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the community-based exercise programs, which usually provide health and well-being to the elderly, have stopped their activities to avoid the virus to spread out; so, the elderly kept taking medicines but stopped exercising, which must impair their health and increase demand from the public health system. In this sense, the physical education professional is essential to providing safe approaches to the elderly who are not able to enroll in community-based exercise programs but need to exercise to improve their health. This article aims to discuss the consequences of not exercising in older adults' health during the social isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic; still, we intend to present adjunct strategies to allow the elderly to exercise even socially isolated.