Abstract
Objective: Analyze the perception and the importance of the effective practice of physical activities by seniors with diabetes mellitus under Family Health Strategy. Methods: It´s a descriptive, transverse and quantitative study. It was used the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) and self-reports for the data collect. It were splitted in categories: sedentary, insufficient active, active and very active. Results: Were envolved 198 seniors registered in 6 Family Strategy od Health, both genders, ages between 60 and 92 years. It was founded that, from the 198 interviewed seniors, there was a discrepancy among the total number of active people with a unsatisfactory manner (sedentaries and unsatisfactory actives A and B), corresponding a 85,05% (169), and the number of people with satisfactory performance (active and very active), in 14,95% (29), even that 76,3% (151) from these has been updated, in the last 06 months, about the benefits of the physical activites. Conclusion: Most of the analyzed seniors is insufficient active. Therefore, it becomes necessary to improve the the covering of the primary attention about the practice of physical activities.