Many initiatives have been developed to facilitate older adults’ engagement in physical activity (PA) and document its benefits. One example is Texercise, a 12-week program with a focus on increasing participants’ self-efficacy. The goal of this paper is to augment the knowledgebase of PA program implementation and dissemination by elucidating the experience of Texercise implementation as perceived by multiple stakeholders. We conducted 28 semistructured stakeholder interviews and categorized the responses into four preset themes: (1) program delivery and advocacy; (2) value/merit of the program; (3) successes/challenges of offering and sustaining the program; and (4) recommendations for enhancing implementation and delivery. We identified emergent subthemes through further analysis. Many perceptions that are broadly applicable to community organizations emerged. Our findings highlight the importance of stakeholder support when embedding PA programs in communities. Furthermore, the findings are crucial to understanding underlying processes that support widespread program dissemination and sustainability.
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Increasing the Availability of Physical Activity Programs for Older Adults: Lessons Learned From Texercise Stakeholders
Alan B. Stevens, Shannon B. Thiel, Jennifer L. Thorud, Matthew Lee Smith, Doris Howell, Jessica Cargill, Suzanne M. Swierc, and Marcia G. Ory
Framing Physical Literacy for Adults Through a Rehabilitation Lens: An Expert Consensus Study
Celeste Petrusevski, Joy C. MacDermid, Michael G. Wilson, and Julie Richardson
the fields of rehabilitation, aging research, epidemiology, and policy advocacy rather than sociology or inequality advocacy within physical literacy, and so the results should be viewed through this lens. It is also possible that framing the evidence prior to the consensus meeting could influence the
Assessing Physical Therapists’ Outdoor Walking Recommendations and Neighborhood Walkability for Older Adults
Hannah A. Karczewski and Jennifer Blackwood
://www.apta.org/apta-and-you/leadership-and-governance/policies/position-scope-of-practice American Physical Therapy Association . ( 2019 ). Physical therapist’s role in prevention, wellness, fitness, health promotion, and management of disease and disability . https://www.apta.org/siteassets/pdfs/policies/association-role-advocacy.pdf Arakawa Martins , B. , Taylor , D. , Barrie , H
Perceived Neighborhood Environment Associated With Older Adults’ Walking and Positive Affect: Results From the Health and Retirement Study
Sunwoo Lee
contexts can also improve neighborhood social cohesion and inclusion. Local recreation and park services may develop attractive walking environments and implement well-designed walking programs for the community seniors. Community organizations and advocacy groups can improve awareness about age
Prevalence and Sociodemographic Correlates of Meeting the 24-Hour Movement Guidelines Among Low-Income Brazilian Older Adults With Chronic Diseases
Antonio Henrique Germano Soares, Andrea Wendt, Inácio Crochemore-Silva, Clarice Martins, Arthur Oliveira Barbosa, Mauro Virgílio Gomes de Barros, and Rafael M. Tassitano
trend for older adults’ movement behavior over the 24-hr cycle and should alert healthcare professionals, researchers, educators, policy makers, advocacy groups, and key organizations to the lack of older adults who meet the 24-hr movement behavior guideline recommendations. The lack of adherence to the
Do Peers Increase Older Adults’ Participation in Strength Training? Pilot Randomized Trial
Elissa Burton, Karen Levit, Jim Codde, Keith D. Hill, and Anne-Marie Hill
a falls prevention organization to its members. The falls prevention not-for-profit organization was an advocacy agency and did not deliver strength and balance training programs. They did, however, allow recruitment through their falls prevention presentations, which were delivered across the Perth
A Qualitative Exploration of Immigrant Muslim Older Adults’ Experiences and Perceptions of Physical Activity
Jordana Salma, Allyson Jones, Savera Aziz Ali, Bukola Salami, and Shelby Yamamoto
Muslim immigrant communities in Edmonton, Canada. A grassroots community advocacy group, focused on the well-being of Muslim older adults, approached the primary researcher with the intent of exploring the experiences and needs of older Muslims in their communities. A community-based participatory
A Social Ecological Perspective on Physical Activity of Low-Income Older Adults in Singapore
Sapphire H. Lin
affecting an individual’s physical activity. Amid the spate of studies focusing on intrapersonal factors influencing physical activity, there is advocacy for more studies dealing with interpersonal influences on physical activity ( Cobb et al., 2016 ). Just as people are interconnected, so is their health
Community Group-Based Physical Activity Programs for Immigrant Older Adults: A Systematic Realist Review
Jordana Salma, Alesia Au, Sonam Ali, Stephanie Chamberlain, John C. Spence, Allyson Jones, Megan Kennedy, Hongmei Tong, Salima Meherali, Philile Mngomezulu, and Rachel Flynn
senior’s advocacy group (Table 2 ). A PowerPoint presentation outlined each CMO and was followed with a discussion about the ways the CMO did or did not reflect knowledge users’ lived experiences. Their responses informed refinement of the eight CMOs which formed the final realist program theory. Table
