Older adults who regularly exercise have a better quality of life, even if they have AD or suffer from depression. Increased ...

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

Exercising as you age can be challenging. Sometimes it can feel like your body is breaking down. One possible reason for this ...

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

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

Dr Lieberman added that despite his preference for endurance activities, his research highlighted the critical importance of ...

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 ...

Exercise is key to healthy aging, combating obesity, and preventing chronic illnesses. Staying active can improve physical ...

Conclusions: The elderly people who regularly practiced tai chi not only showed better proprioception at the ankle and knee joints than sedentary controls, but also better ankle kinaesthesis than ...