While elderly people, like Smriti Irani's mother, can benefit from weightlifting and working out with dumbbells, it is ...

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

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

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

Dr Johannes Marisa, public health specialist "People are just glued to their televisions, people are glued to their phones, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...