%0 Journal Article %T PARTICIPANTS PROFILE OF THE N¨²CLEO UNESP-UNATI OF THE CAMPUS OF PRESIDENTE PRUDENTE PERFIL DE LOS PARTICIPANTES DEL N¨²CLEO UNESP-UNATI DEL CAMPUS DE PRESIDENTE PRUDENTE Perfil dos participantes do n¨²cleo UNESP-UNATI do campus de Presidente Prudente %A Maria Estelita Rojas Converso %A Isabele Iartelli %J Revista Ci¨ºncia em Extens£¿o %D 2010 %I Pr¨®-Reitoria de Extens?o Universit¨¢rio %X Because of the great increase of the senior population in all world, a larger concern exists in turning the most productive and healthy old age. With this purpose, the N¨²cleo UNESP-UNATI of the campus of Presidente Prudente, tries to contribute offering several activities and providing an important social integration among these individuals. Like this, is necessary to characterize them and to know their interests better for refine and a planning of the activities, doing with that these assist the expectations and needs of the participant group. For the characterization data were collected on sex, education, marital status and home. It is noticed, for the results, that most of the participants lives with their relatives in detriments of the ones that live alone. In relation to the marital status the married ones prevail. In agreement with the education degree, we had a high index of participants with higher education, starting from 2002, that just in the year of 2001 it was crossed by a larger index of participants with incomplete fundamental teaching, fact that can also be explained by the type of activities that were inserted in the program. The predominant age group was of 50 and 70 years for both sexes. In agreement with the obtained results, we can notice that the senior this being moved as active agent of their own health, always looking for to improve their quality of life. Debido al gran aumento de la poblaci¨®n mayor en todo el mundo, hay en la actualidad una notoria preocupaci¨®n por hacer que la vejez sea una etapa de la vida m¨¢s productiva y sana. En ese contexto, el N¨²cleo UNESP-UNATI del campus de Presidente Prudente busca contribuir al bienestar de los adultos mayores, ofreci¨¦ndoles la oportunidad de participar en diversas actividades que suelen promover una importante integraci¨®n social entre ellos. Para lograr perfeccionamiento y planeamiento adecuado de las actividades, con vistas a que ¨¦stas atiendan a las expectativas y necesidades del grupo participante, se ve ante la necesidad de caracterizar a los participantes y conocer mejor sus intereses. Con es finalidad, se han colectado sus datos relativos a sexo, escolaridad, estado civil y vivienda. Los resultados obtenidos indican que la mayor¨ªa de los adultos mayores no vive sola, sino con sus familiares. Respecto al estado civil, predominan los casados. En cuanto al nivel de escolaridad, a partir de 2002 ha habido un alto ¨ªndice de participantes con estudios superiores, que s¨®lo fue rebasado, en el a o de 2001, por un n¨²mero mayor de participantes con estudios de secundaria incompletos. Est %K Idoso. Terceira idade. %U http://ojs.unesp.br/index.php/revista_proex/article/view/188