Resumen en inglés

With the impact of scientific, technological and public health advances, life expectancy worldwide has increased in recent years, with the United States leading the studies on this issue. On the other hand, on the favorable incidence of physical activity for quality in the elderly, studies have been carried out at the Latin American, national and more local level such as MonteríaCórdoba ratifying the relationship between physical activity and functional capacity. This monograph seeks to explain or describe the relationship between physical activity and functional capacity in the elderly through a bibliographic review that starts from a qualitative approach with an explanatory and correlational type of research, with theoretical research methods such as analysis from a population and sample of 41 documents taking into account the variables of aging, functional capacity and physical activity. As a result, an analysis was carried out where the documents consulted were correlated in the different categories where a relationship was found between physical activity and functional capacity in the elderly, this relationship goes beyond physical benefits, since it encompasses significant improvements at the cognitive and emotional level demonstrating that these are also part of the functional capacity of the elderly.