Benefits of Exercise in Old Age

Gorman, Kevin M.; Posner, Joel D.

doi:10.1016/s0749-0690(18)30772-9

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“…It has long been recognized that regular aerobic exercise increases bone mass, sense of well‐being, aerobic fitness, and muscle strength 19 , 20 . The present study demonstrates that for both older men and older women, regular physical activity is associated with reduced mortality.…”

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The Effects of Physical Activity on Mortality in the Jerusalem 70‐Year‐Olds Longitudinal Study

Stessman

Maaravi

Hammerman‐Rozenberg

et al. 2000

J American Geriatrics Society

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The Effects of Physical Activity on Mortality in the Jerusalem 70‐Year‐Olds Longitudinal Study

Stessman

Maaravi

Hammerman‐Rozenberg

et al. 2000

J American Geriatrics Society

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“…The latter concluded that the maximum speed of shortening, contraction times and fiber types do not seem to change significantly with aging, but fast/slow fiber innervation ratios do seem to. Muscle power reduction with aging may also be due to systemic factors, such as decline in cardiopulmonary function (Gorman and Posner, 1988).…”

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Mobility impairment in the elderly: Challenges for biomechanics research

Schultz

1992

Journal of Biomechanics

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The problems of mobility impairment in the elderly constitute new and major challenges for biomechanics research. This paper outlines what some of the important problems are, discusses the relevance of biomechanics research to these problems, and reviews some of the current state of knowledge about factors related to the biomechanics of mobility impairments in the elderly. The population of old adults is growing rapidly and the incidence of mobility impairments in old adults is high. Mobility impairment biomechanics research is needed to make the assessments of impairments more precise, to design therapeutic programs that are more effective and to learn more about how mobility impairments can be prevented.

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“…With respect to the physical activity and health benefits, there is some evidence that even lowand moderate-intensity exercise programs in older people result in realistic improvements in many physical and psychological aspects. 4 As there are uncountable benefits of physical activity and exercise so it is not restricted to any age group. According to international standardized protocol of Exercise i.e.…”

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Geriatric Population

Bashir¹,

Naweed²,

Cheema³

et al. 2018

TPMJ

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Background: Aging is an inevitable process which has to take place at any costand is experienced by all of us, as a true reality of life. So, this stage of life; is quite pleasurablefor some elderly people whereas for some it becomes miserable. They become more fragileand prone towards diseases which greatly impact their health and limits activities of daily living.This decline increases day by day and becomes a cause of death. Objectives of Study: Toevaluate the relationship of physical activity on quality of life of elderly people. To determinewhether how many of them are still active and to find the reasons that makes an elderly personresponsible for being active or inactive which directly impacts the quality of life of an individual.Design: A Descriptive Cross Sectional survey. Period: It was 6 months of duration from January2014 till June 2014. Setting: A Descriptive Cross Sectional survey was conducted in elderlypopulation. This study was conducted from elderly people living in Rawalpindi, Islamabad.For these OPDs of the hospitals of Rawalpindi, Islamabad had been visited. Methods: Thesample size was 700 elderly individuals including males & females of ages 65 years & above.A structured questionnaire was designed and finalized after peer review. This questionnairewas “The Lawton Instrumental Activities of daily living Scale” that consisted of 15 questions,out of which 7 were close ended questions & 8 questions taken from the scale. Then, thedata had been be analyzed on SPSS-20 software. Results: The results of Lawton’s scale(which measures the level of effectiveness of physical activity) show that out of 700 total elderlypopulations, 564(80.5%) participants are physically active whereas 136 (19.4%) participants arethe ones who are not at all active. Among elderly population of 439 male participant 283(64.4%)of them are active that is they achieved the score 5/5 which is maximum independent scoreas described by Lawton for males. Whereas out of 261female participants 84 (32.2%) of themare independent and active as their score is 8/8. The result regarding diseases of our geriatricpopulation show that 200 (28.6%) of them are the ones having no disease at all. Whereas inthe case of diseased population, 119 (17%) of them are having cardiovascular & Hypertension,128 (18%) among them have the diseases present in combination of two. 76 (10.9%) amongthem are having Arthritis, which cannot be ignored. Conclusion: Physical activity has shownto have extremely positive benefits on health, mind, body & quality of life of an individual. Thesame implies with the elderly population because physical activity is a very powerful tool todelay the degenerative process which inevitably take place in the body. As the process ofaging is delayed, it produces many beneficial effects on almost all the systems of the body.Physical activity is proved to be extremely cardio protective in elders. Delay the disease process& protect them against many harmful effects of aging which would otherwise make elderly bedstrickenfrom the very beginning of aging process in geriatric population.

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Benefits of Exercise in Old Age

Cited by 26 publications

References 56 publications

The Effects of Physical Activity on Mortality in the Jerusalem 70‐Year‐Olds Longitudinal Study

The Effects of Physical Activity on Mortality in the Jerusalem 70‐Year‐Olds Longitudinal Study

Mobility impairment in the elderly: Challenges for biomechanics research

Geriatric Population

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