NEURÓBICA - ATIVIDADES PARA DESENVOLVER E MANTER A MENTE ATIVA

Abstract

The objective of this work is to stimulate memory and the development of logical reasoning, being developed through activities focused on mental exercise, aiming at improvements and maintenance of physical and mental health and in the execution of daily issues, thus offering a better quality of life to the participants, presenting activities of logical reasoning that develops the organization of thoughts and creativity to reach the solution of the problems presented. The work was developed with the Group of the Third Age of the Nasf Unit - Ipameri (Family Health Support Center), in which the experience report on the development of the Project with the Group is made, using as a premise the concept of Neurobics that by stimulating brain activity, the brain remains agile and healthy, restoring the activity patterns of neurons that are lost as age advances. The importance of this work is due to the fact that the increase in life expectancy, according to the statistical projections of the World Health Organization - WHO, in the period from 1950 to 2025 the group of elderly people in Brazil must have increased by 15 times, while the total population in five, that is, in the year 2025 there will be about 32 million people belonging to this group. The idea of this work arose from the observation that the Elderly Groups existing in the municipality of Ipameri promote physical activities with the elderly, aiming at a significant improvement in physical health, and social coexistence activities, with meetings and dance and leisure workshops with walks in clubs, get-togethers and presentations by this group at events in the city. And, so far, there are still no official works focused on the development of activities aimed at the prevention, maintenance, or even the development of activities related to the mental health of these elderly people, who, as a result of the aging process, end up doing ordinary activities due to the stagnation offered with advancing age and the lack of activities that stimulate brain activity offered to this clientele. A total of seven workshops were developed focused on mental exercise, aiming at improvements and maintenance of physical and mental health, and on the execution of daily issues, thus offering a better quality of life to the participants in the proposed activities. Seeking to intertwine the activities of logical mathematical skills with the concept of neurobics, we are faced with the certainty that Mathematics is not just a curricular content in the classrooms, but a broad concept, directly related in all areas of study, and that it presents itself in its various ways; here we will relate Mathematics in a visual and totally palpable way. However, as results were observed at the end of the Project's development, the participants' interest in trying to solve the problems presented, improvement in communication between their peers and with the family, improvement in concentration, reasoning and attention, and the awakening and development of competitive spirit in the participants.