Training program focused on tasks aimed at promoting sustainable balance management in elderly individuals

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Background: physical performance deteriorates over the years, due to the disuse of the musculoskeletal system, predisposing to balance and gait problems. During the development of the research the priority attention group-elderly population. Objective: to implement physical activity, prevention of sedentary lifestyle, through exercise it was possible to improve balance with the implementation of a double and simple task exercise program due to the consequences generated by dependence in older adults regarding physical, psychological and social health, in which older adults have been found to lose their independence. Methods: the research was descriptive based on the qualitative, cross-sectional approach in which an initial and final evaluation of the Tinetti test was performed, then the exercise program was executed for 16 weeks, lasting 10 to 45 minutes for each exercise. Results: there was a predominance of 63.3% to the female gender and 36.7% male gender, with the significant verification ap value of (p>0.039) was obtained in the test; being less than alpha (p<0.05) rejecting the null hypothesis. Conclusions: the double and simple task exercise program was systematically applied to the entire sample population, which through its intervention is concluded to give the expected results verified with the Initial and Final Tinetti Test there is a finding of great importance improving balance and avoiding the risk of falls in older adults.