Recreación terapéutica en acción: calidad de vida, arte y beneficios de la recreación en niños y adultos mayores.

Abstract

Therapeutic recreation helps to improve the integral health of people seeking their well-being from the physical, psychological and social areas, it is being linked to art since it allows to give an interpretation of reality through different disciplines that the subject is feel comfortable, encouraging your creativity and playful dimension. This is important because people seek to improve their quality of life in aspects of how they live, not only economically and materially, but also looking for the point of view of how they feel and the benefits that these bring to their health. It was applied in two populations, which are in different stages of life, these are children (16) and the elderly (17). These seek to analyze the influence of therapeutic recreation measured by artistic practices, on perceived health and well-being, of children (4 -12 years old) and older adults participating in a recreation program provided by the Deepening of Recreation and Management of Free Time of the Faculty of Physical Culture, Sport and Recreation. Four phases were carried out, in the first, interviews and analysis of these were carried out, in the second, the art-mediated therapeutic recreation program was created and executed, in the third, the benefits that these activities generated compared to therapeutic recreation were observed, and in the fourth and The last phase was observed the changes of the participants and the influence of art in the therapeutic recreation.