Active Ageing and Physical Activity: Guidelines, Functional Exercises and Recommendations

✍ Scribed by Gonçalo Nuno Figueiredo Dias, Micael Santos Couceiro (auth.)

Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 131
Series: SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book presents an analysis of active ageing and physical activity from a multidisciplinary perspective. With descriptions of exercises, adequately illustrated with pictures, this book shows that regular physical activity reduces the prevalence of chronic diseases associated with ageing, as well as the risk of morbidity and mortality of the elderly. It confirms that exercise programs minimize the psychomotor decline, prevent the loss of functionality, inability and dementia, and foster significant gains in health and well-being, leading to increased quality of life of the elderly.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction: New Paradigms of Active Ageing....Pages 1-19
Physical Activity Benefits in Active Ageing....Pages 21-34
Activity Programmes for the Elderly....Pages 35-103
Technology for the Active Senior....Pages 105-118
Conclusions....Pages 119-120

✦ Subjects

Quality of Life Research;Occupational Therapy;Aging

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