• physical activity

The progressive aging of the population is now known to all, experts and non-experts. While on the one hand the increase in longevity undoubtedly represents a great achievement, as it testifies to the growing improvement in living conditions and advances in medicine, on the other it could turn into a threat for the immediate future, if it were not counterbalanced by a renewed ability to plan appropriate, systematic and urgent health policy interventions that invest research, assistance and well-being of the elderly, taking into consideration the evolution of the concept of aging itself.The state of health of the elderly is no longer identified solely with the reduced presence of disease, but with the maintenance of psychophysical and relational well-being, even in the presence of polypathologies. set out is to implement prevention interventions capable of minimizing the main factors of risk and promote adequate lifestyles at all ages, simultaneously promoting access to services and the integration of the subject into their own social context. Scientific evidence shows that regular physical activity plays a key role as a protective factor against the various organs, systems and potential pathologies connected to them.