UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Take a deep breath ... says it can be off-putting for older people to be told that they should be getting a specific amount of exercise. PATTERSON: My thing is move.
Doing lots of exercise in older age can prevent the immune system from declining and protect people against infections ... everyone would be taking it. "It has wide-ranging benefits for the ...
Falls in older people are an important but often overlooked problem ... Only 7% from a random sample of 13 866 health maintenance organisation enrollees were eligible to take part. The intervention ...
Research has shown that people who take regular exercise may be up to 20% less likely to develop dementia than those ... midlife also seems to have the best effect on reducing dementia risk. There is ...
Conclusions: The elderly people who regularly practiced tai chi not only showed better proprioception at the ankle and knee joints than sedentary controls, but also better ankle kinaesthesis than ...
The average age of the participants in the studies was 76 years old and three quarters of them were women. Eighty-one of these trials compared exercise (all types) versus a control intervention (doing ...