Physical Activity Elderly People
Exploring patterns of accelerometry-assessed physical activity in elderly people
... Patterns of PA are described in terms of activity bouts. We define a bout as consecutive minutes spent at a spe- cific intensity level without interruption (Figure 2B). Bouts are characterized by their duration ...
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Relationship between physical activity and health-related quality of life in elderly people: a cross section study
... 114 elderly people (73 males, 41 females) aged $ 65 years were recruited in this ...participating elderly were classified accord- ing to walking duration into two groups, low level of physical ...
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Relationship between Physical Activity Level and Depression of Elderly People Living Alone: Results from a Nationally Representative Sample of Elderly in South Korea
... active physical activities can prevent geriatric depression [11]. Physical activity is defined as the basic activity of all human being that consumes energy through the contraction and ...
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Activity Limitation in the Elderly People and Inequalities in Brazil
... on activity limitations in the present study, with the exception of hypertension, which had a protective effect on ...any physical or mental disability) [2] [20] ...
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Physical activity monitors to enhance the daily amount of physical activity in elderly—a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis
... “older people” OR “residents” OR “frail elderly” AB “old adults” OR AB elderly OR AB “Above 60 years” OR AB Seniors OR AB Aged OR AB (Aged, 80 and over)) AND (AB “Step counter” OR AB “physical ...
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The Effect of Educational Intervention on the Physical Activity of the Elderly
... to physical activity, the findings of a national survey among Iranian adults showed that over 80% of the Iranian population is physically inactive (8), and the lowest physical activity is over ...
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The effect of educational intervention according to PRECEDE model on the regular physical activity among elderly people
... demographic details (age, gender, education level), knowledge (20 items, with score ranging from 0 to 20), with “yes” or “no” answers, aiming to assess participants’ knowledge about benefits of exercise in old-age, ...
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Role of physical activity in the prevention of falls and their consequences in the elderly
... the elderly, and the mortality rate increases when the individual fall rate increases [41, 45, ...evident physical consequences, psychological consequences must also be considered: the fear of falling leads ...
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Physical activity of elderly patients with rheumatoid arthritis and healthy individuals: an actigraphy study
... The present study has several limitations. The sample size was small. Further investigation in a large popula- tion is required to confirm the findings of this report and to identify the association between actigraphic ...
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Alterations in IGF-I affect elderly: role of physical activity
... all people experience a series of progressive alterations in body composition ...the elderly, result at least in part from diminished secretion of GH [74, ...
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Perceived Health, Physical Activity and Sport among the Elderly of Spain
... the elderly in Spain participate less in sports activities and/or physical exercise programmes than the rest of the population (Armstrong & Morgan, 1998; Dalloso, Morgan, Bassey et ...in physical ...
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Physical activity and neurocognitive functioning in aging - a condensed updated review
... fMRI activity pattern but also some ERP components are modulated by physical activity [9, ...older people benefit more from physical activity than younger ...between ...
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The Impact of a Pet, in This Case a Dog, on Physical Activity, Independence, Social Contacts, Health and Quality of Life of Elderly People
... owner’s physical activity could be that Germany is densely populated and life is extensively regulated and the dog in more populated regions must be walked on a leash during the multiple daily ...owner’s ...
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A community-wide campaign to promote physical activity in middle-aged and elderly people: a cluster randomized controlled trial
... stretch” (all originally in the Unnan dialect of Japanese) in the last year (November 2009 to October 2010)?” Then, participants answered yes or no to receiving the fol- lowing CWC components: (1) posters, leaflets, and ...
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Age-related decrease in physical activity and functional fitness among elderly men and women
... This study involved a large number of participants aged 60–80 years and had consequently high external validity. However, cross-sectional design, the indirect estimation of PA levels via the IPAQ rather than pedometers ...
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Evaluating the level of physical activity and common mental disorders in elderly people who use chronic medicines
... 128 elderly of both genders, being 97 of the feminine gender and 31 of the masculine ...the elderly who accepted and agreed to sign the Informed Consent Form (TCLE), similarly those who answered the ...
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Physical Activity and Mobility Function in Elderly People Living in Residential Care Facilities “Act on Aging”: A Pilot Study
... of elderly people (Baker, Atlantis, & Fiatarone, 2007), in particular if the abilities of each individual are taken into account in terms of intensity and ...the elderly. Aside from this, these ...
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Cultural adaptation and psychometric adequacy of the Persian version of the physical activity scale for the elderly (P PASE)
... II. Activities of daily living (ADL) refer to people’s daily self-care activities. Health professionals often consider a person’s ability or inability to perform daily living activities as a measurement of their ...
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Diet, lifestyle factors and hypercholesterolemia in elderly men and women from Cyprus
... of elderly people from ...smoking, physical activity, even in elderly people seems to be associated with a considerable reduction of the burden of ...
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The Presence of an Exercise Instructor or Group Members Affects Physical Self Concept and Physical Self Esteem: An Experimental Study in the Elderly
... neither physical self- concept nor physical self-esteem ...on physical self-concept or self-esteem under this condition? One possibility is that the concurrent existence of a leader and a group may ...
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