![]() The transition to retirement is a promising starting point for interventions promoting an active lifestyle, because people tend to establish new routines and give up previous ones. Particularly with regard to increasing life expectancy in the EU, PA opportunities in everyday life of older adults require special attention in terms of promoting PA. In average, women are less active than men. Prevalence of PA is different in the European countries, people of southern Europe are less active compared to other areas. In Europe, 35% of adults are considered as physically inactive and this proportion increases with age to 45% of the 60 + −year-olds. The WHO recommends at least 2.5 h/week of moderate or 75 min/week of vigorous PA. Even in older adults, regular PA can still improve mental and physical health and positively affect the general ageing process. Sufficiently active people have previously shown to carry a lower risk of poor health or development of chronic diseases in old age. Thus, lack of PA is related to one of the major cost factors in the EU health systems. In the EU, the main causes of death are diseases of the cardiovascular system for which lack of PA is one of the major risk factors. An estimated amount of three million premature deaths can be attributed to lack of PA, which could have been avoided through prevention and health promotion. In this context, PA plays a major role as it can increase life expectancy, daily living skills, overall well-being and quality of life. ![]() Physical activity (PA) is essential for the skeletal, muscular- and digestive systems and also for circulation. The feared impact of demographic change could be mitigated by healthy ageing, as older adults in good health remain longer at work or can play an active role in society through volunteer activities. PA promotion programs for older adults should incorporate the heterogeneity of health status and physical condition that can typically occur in this age group.ĭemographic change is a challenging development for the social systems of all member states in the European Union (EU). Longitudinally in a fully adjusted model, only grip strength (HR: 0.99 CI-95%: 0.98–0.99) and BMI (HR: 1.02 CI-95%: 1.00–1.04) were statistically significant risk factors for IPA. Interpersonal only the size of social network was associated with IPA (male and female: POR: 0.88, 95%-CI: 0.81–0.95). Statistically significant associated with IPA were socioeconomic factors as low educational level (own and parental) and financial difficulties (male: POR: 1.60: 95%-CI: 1.26–2.03 female: POR: 1.58 95%-CI: 1.26–1.97) and health-related factors as e.g. IPA was associated with several intrapersonal factors and strength of association was similar for men and women for almost all investigated factors. The prevalence of IPA in 65–75-year-olds varied widely between countries, ranging from 55.4% to 83.3% in women and from 46.6% to 73.7% in men. To identify cross-sectional and longitudinal associations, we calculated prevalence odds ratios and hazard ratios with 95% confidence intervals. For the present paper, we included a cohort that participated in all first four waves of SHARE (2004–2011) aged 65-to-75–years at wave four (male n = 1761, female n = 2085) from 10 European countries. SHARE is a cross-national panel database including individual data of the non-institutionalised population aged 50+ from 27 European countries. This study is using data of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Therefore the aims of this study are a) to determine the prevalence of insufficient physical activity (IPA) in 65 to 75-year-olds in Europe and to identify factors associated with IPA in cross-section and b) to identify longitudinal risk factors for IPA in prior active persons. There is a lack of cross-sectional and longitudinal studies explicitly dealing with barriers and drivers to PA in older adults. Stress marks: In IPA, / ˈ / indicates that the primary stressed syllable follows and / ˌ / indicates the secondary stressed syllable follows, as in newspaper / ˈnuzˌpeɪ pər / and information / ˌɪn fərˈmeɪ ʃən /.The promotion of physical activity (PA) plays a major role for healthy ageing even in older age.
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