In 2020, the WHO launched updated guidelines on physical activity (PA) and sedentary behaviour. Globally, countries were ...

DOCTORS should prescribe exercise to help older folk live longer, a study shows. Regular workouts were found to reduce the ...

A new article reports that getting 150 minutes of moderate physical activity each week can reduce all-cause mortality by 31% ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Exercise has always been fundamental to maintaining overall health, especially as you age. Some older ...

Some older people in Zimbabwe are taking up exercise wherever they can find the space as non-communicable diseases such as diabetes become a growing problem across Africa ...

Objective—To assess the effectiveness of exercise programmes in preventing falls (and/or lowering the risk of falls and fall related injuries) in older people. Design—A review of controlled clinical ...

Q: My parents are both retired medical professionals who are in their early 70s. My father has diabetes that he manages with ...

Their objective was to establish their usefulness for the online prescription of physical exercise and to determine whether they are adapted to older people's needs. The work is published in the ...

The review looked at two different ways of measuring falls. Firstly, they found that exercise reduces the number of falls over time by around a quarter (23% reduction). This means that if there were ...

10 Today is an exercise programme from Sport England and Demos designed for older people to protect against poor health and disease, and improve mental health and maintain independence.

Across parks of Beijing, groups of elderly people can be seen ‘square dancing’, exercising, or playing different types of games. These parks are spaces not just for exercising but for social ...