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Over the past 35 years several federal government initiatives have positioned Canada to become an international leader in the development of health promotion strategies, including an emphasis on lifestyle choices that include effective exercise and physical activity prescription and healthy nutrition habits. These targets provided momentum and context for the launch of Canada’s physical activity guide to healthy active living (jointly sponsored by Health Canada and the Canadian Society for ...
This cross-sectional observational study examined the frequency of older patient–physician discussions about exercise, who initiates discussions, and the quality of questioning, informing, and support about exercise. Exercise was significantly more likely to be discussed in encounters with female physicians (21.6%) than in encounters with male physicians (8.8%), however the quality of the discussions of exercise did not differ according to sex of the physician. First, given the inferior ...
The 7th World Congress on Aging and Physical Activity was held in Tsukuba, Japan, from July 26-29, 2008. The theme for the 2008 World Congress was "Active Aging: Focus on Longevity and Physical Activity." Wojtek Chodzko-Zajko, PhD, president of the International Coalition of Aging and Physical Activity, presented the plenary lecture called "Physical activity and quality of life in older adults: What we know and what we have yet to learn."
Bevan Grant, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Sport and Leisure Studies at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand. Since the early 1990s, he has taught and researched gerontology with a particular emphasis on the role and meaning of physical activity and leisure in later life. He studies the qualitative paradigm of how older people interpret and make sense out of their day-to-day experiences and considers the way policy, socio-cultural forces, and community initiatives ...
This review critically summarizes the current literature to investigate whether benefits to physical fitness and functioning are engendered through the practice of yoga in older adults. Studies reported moderate improvements for gait (ES = 0.54, 0.80), balance (ES = 0.25–1.61), upper- and lower-body flexibility (ES = 0.25, 0.70), lower-body strength (ES = 0.51), and weight loss (ES = 0.73, 0.99). Yoga may engender improvements in some components of fitness in older adults.
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