Active lifestyle cuts rapid mobility decline in seniors
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“Encouraging older adults to stay as active as possible reduces the likelihood of a rapid decline in mobility.”
Summary
Engaging older adults in regular physical activity and structured exercise programs has been shown to lower the risk of a swift loss of mobility. Randomized trials and longitudinal studies demonstrate that such interventions can prevent or slow functional decline and reduce the incidence of major mobility disability.
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- Maintaining mobility and preventing disability are key to living independently as we age | National Institute on Aging
Researchers are investigating ways ... costly institutional care. A lack of physical activity or exercise can also make it more likely that a person will experience loss of mobility as they age....
- Effect of a physical activity and behaviour maintenance programme on functional mobility decline in older adults: the REACT (Retirement in Action) randomised controlled trial - ScienceDirect
For older adults at risk of mobility limitations, the REACT intervention showed that a 12-month physical activity and behavioural maintenance programme could help prevent decline in physical function over a 24-month period.
- Are physical activity and everyday mobility independently associated with quality of life at older age? - ScienceDirect
1, for Everyday Mobility women tend to score more highly than men at all ages, there is no clear decline until age 75, and this decline is relatively modest (around 0.5 Stdev in total).
- Mobility in Older Community-Dwelling Persons: A Narrative ...
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- Motor and Nonmotor Measures and Declining Daily Physical Activity in Older Adults - PMC
In this cohort study of 650 older adults, sensor-derived mobility metrics and a conventional hand dexterity measure explained most of the variance of declining daily physical activity compared with conventional gait speed or nonmotor variables. Findings of this study suggest the need for future ...
- Longitudinal analysis of physical function in older adults: The effects of physical inactivity and exercise training - PMC
These findings in a community‐based, ... Pahor and colleagues reported that major mobility disability over 2.5 years was significantly reduced in older adults who initiated a long‐term structured exercise program compared to those who did not (Pahor et al., 2014)....
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