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Abstract.SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AS A MEANS FOR REDUCING LEVELS OF COGNITIVE DECLINE IN THE ELDERLY.Thanks to scientific knowledge, developed societies begin to assume that the population is growing significantly, which makes copper paramount importance in order to guarantee high levels of quality of life, articulation and implementation of a wide range of activities and programs that enable them to reduce their levels of cognitive impairment. It is in this context that the programs and activities of sport and physical activity are presented as outstanding instruments to ensure that older acquire and adopt efficient sports routines and healthy habits that will enable them to reduce their levels of cognitive decline and improve the quality of lifetime. From this situation, with this empirical study, we try to ascertain whether there is empirical evidence to affirm categorically that the combination of exercise and healthy lifestyle helps reduce levels of cognitive impairment in old age and therefore, to increase their quality of life. For this we used a descriptive methodology characterized by the use of qualitative instruments, such as the analysis of the main scientific studies on the subject, preceded the present. Although the data collected are not entirely decisive, it does shows that those elderly who manage to maintain significant levels of physical activity and sport and, moreover, are able to adopt healthy lifestyles will be able to maintain adequate health balance and, Consequently, a higher quality of life. interesting results are presented for future studies and research in this area continue to deepen. the desirability of the biggest sporting routines and adopt healthy lifestyles as a great strategy to ensure adequate health balance that enables them to increase their levels of perceived quality of life.Keywords: Health balance, cognitive impairment, elderly, programs and physical activities and sports, healthy lifestyle, quality of life.Resumen.Merced al conocimiento científico, las sociedades desarrolladas comienzan a asumir que la población mayor está creciendo de manera significativa, lo que hace que cobre una importancia capital, a fin de garantizarles altos niveles de calidad de vida, la articulación e implementación de una amplio abanico de actividades y programas que les posibiliten reducir sus niveles de deterioro cognitivo. Es precisamente en este contexto donde los programas y actividades de actividad física y deportiva se presentan como destacados instrumentos para garantizar que los mayores adquieran y adopten eficientes rutinas deportivas y hábitos de vida saludable que les posibiliten reducir sus niveles de deterioro cognitivo e incrementar su calidad de vida. A partir de esta situación, con el presente estudio empírico, se intenta comprobar si existen evidencias empíricas que permitan afirmar, con rotundidad, que la combinación de ejercicio físico y de hábitos de vida saludable contribuye a reducir los niveles de deterioro cognitivo durante la vejez y, por tanto, a incrementar su calidad de vida. Para ello se ha utilizado una metodología descriptiva caracterizada por el empleo de instrumentos de corte cualitativo, como son el análisis de los principales estudios científicos que, sobre la temática, han precedido al presente. Aunque los datos recopilados no son totalmente determinantes, sí que se aprecia que aquellos mayores que logran mantener importantes niveles de actividad física y deportiva y que, además, son capaces de adoptar hábitos de vida saludable van a conseguir mantener un adecuado equilibrio sanitario y, en consecuencia, una mayor calidad de vida. Se presentan resultados interesantes para futuros estudios e investigaciones que continúen profundizando en este ámbito. Se percibe la conveniencia de que los mayores adopten rutinas deportivas y hábitos de vida saludable como una gran estrategia para garantizarles un adecuado equilibrio sanitario que les posibilite incrementar sus niveles de calidad de vida.Palabras clave: Equilibrio sanitario, deterioro cognitivo, personas mayores, programas y actividades físicas y deportivas, hábitos de vida saludable, calidad de vida.

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