Pathology in the foot of the elderly people

Abstract

With the increase in expectation of life, the process of population aging in a very high process, and with this course, a lot of changes hapening, that interferes in the functional capable and in the quality of life in the elderly people, and, between those, are the pathologies in the feets. This work aims to study the pathologies usuals in the feets of the elderly people, describing the mains therapeutic pproaches. As a method of lifting bibliographic, were used databases Medline, Lilacs, and Scielo e Scap. As a result, were observed that, with aging, a lot of changes occurs in the physiogical and anatomical structures of the foot, leading to commom problems on the feet of elderly, as metatarsalgias, fasciite plant, hálux valgus, hálux hard, deformities of the fingers, changes in the plantar arch, pain in the heel, talalgias, periarticular problems, skin (and supplementares) changes, artorpatias, problemas (problems) periarticulares, vascular and neurological disorders. These disturbs are related with an incapacity functional and the decrease in the quality of lifeof the elderly people. In conclusion, the problems in the feets of the elderly people happening with frequency and it needs to have a lot of pay attention about the diagnostic and the correct treatment, deriving of the functional decrease on this kind of pathologies.