Considerações sobre o papel da ergonomia em idosos economicamente ativos

Abstract

The present dissertation describes the paper of the Ergonomics and as the same one makes possible to modify and/or to adapt a position acquired to long of the life the many times incorrect, to develop a new more adequate position. The research was carried through with aged that they inhabit in the condominium Island of the South, located in São Paulo, capital. Aged ones had been interviewed 6, being 2 men and 4 women, inhabitants of the condominium with age above of the 60 years, with preserved functional capacity and that they developed its professional activity normally. To guide the research, a bibliographical survey was made emphasizing the aspects of the position and its alterations in the oldness and also on the Ergonomics in the aspects of application and referring benefits the position alterations. It was made an evaluation of the initial position and an evaluation of the finish position of the interviewed ones, also to compare the occured alterations and a questionnaire with questions that had been answered by the interviewed ones which applied in the end of the research