title: Analysis of activities in the daily lives of older adults exposed to the Pilates Method.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The objective of this study was to analyse the Pilates Method (PM) to assess whether it can help to improve the performance of activities that older adults undertake in their daily lives.
  
  
  METHODS
  this is a pre-post experimental study with a convenience sample consisting of 22 women, aged from 65 to 74 years. Data collection was divided into three stages: 1) the Battery Test of Daily Life Activities for Physically Independent Elderly (BTDLAPIE); 2) 12 weeks of Pilates training, with 50-minute sessions twice a week; 3) Repetition of all BTDLAPIE tests. We used the Student t test for paired samples and the level of significance was considered to be ≤0.05.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  After the study group had been exposed to 12 weeks of training with the PM, it took them less time to perform the activities of their daily lives. However, we suggest that other controlled studies are needed in order to understand these outcomes more fully.
authors.affiliation: GRACE, UFRGS, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Vanessa Sanders
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Curi Pérez
authors.affiliation: GRACE, Curso de Licenciatura em Dança, UFRGS, RS, Brazil. Electronic address: alinehaas02@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Aline Nogueira
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Haas
authors.affiliation: GRACE, UFRGS, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Silvia Susana
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Wolff
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged; D026241:Exercise Movement Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011788:Quality of Life
keywords: Daily Life Activities; Older adults; Pilates Method