has become a priority for public health interventions in the United Kingdom to reduce the risk of preventable health conditions developing and promote healthy aging ( Public Health England, 2014 ). Despite challenges in synthesizing evidence from heterogeneous studies using mainly randomized
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Therapeutic Alliance and Its Potential Application to Physical Activity Interventions for Older Adults: A Narrative Review
Andrew Powell
Associations of Vigorous Gardening With Cardiometabolic Risk Markers for Middle-Aged and Older Adults
Jonathan Kingsley, Nyssa Hadgraft, Neville Owen, Takemi Sugiyama, David W. Dunstan, and Manoj Chandrabose
There is a growing case for the potential of gardening as a public health initiative ( Audate et al., 2019 ; Zick et al., 2013 ). Gardening may be defined as any activity to produce and/or maintain vegetation (in the form of food, flowers, herbs, feed, and fiber) in a domestic or community setting
Formative Development of a Technology-Based Physical Activity Intervention for Grandparents and Grandchildren
Marissa A. Kobayashi, Sara M. St. George, Rafael O. Leite, Blanca Noriega Esquives, Rachel Wetstone, Elizabeth R. Pulgaron, Guillermo Prado, and Sara J. Czaja
recommendations of 60 min/day ( Bai et al., 2016 ). An emerging body of evidence shows physical activity decreases at age seven for both boys and girls ( Farooq et al., 2018 ). These trends indicate that physical inactivity is a significant public health issue among both generations. Physical activity
Physical Activity Health Literacy in Iranian Older Adults: Development and Psychometric Testing
Moeini Babak, Barati Majid, Heidarimoghadam Rashid, Tapak Leili, and Parsamajd Shahryar
engagement to create and implement health reform . BMC Public Health, 14 ( 1 ), 1 – 10 . https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-694 10.1186/1471-2458-14-694 Berkman , N.D. , Davis , T.C. , & McCormack , L. ( 2010 ). Health literacy: What is it? Journal of Health Communication, 15 ( S2 ), 9
Adapting an Effective Health-Promoting Intervention—Choose to Move—for Chinese Older Adults in Canada
Venessa Wong, Thea Franke, Heather McKay, Catherine Tong, Heather Macdonald, and Joanie Sims-Gould
. , Horse Brave Heart , M.Y. , Das , R. , & Farhat , T. ( 2019 ). Building the evidence base to inform planned intervention adaptations by practitioners serving health disparity populations . American Journal of Public Health, 109 ( Suppl. 1 ), S94 – S101 . 10.2105/AJPH.2018.304915 Barrera M
Association of Sitting Time With All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality: How Does Frailty Modify This Association?
Felipe Diaz-Toro, Carolina Nazzal Nazal, Gabriela Nazar, Ximena Diaz-Martinez, Yeny Concha-Cisternas, Carlos Celis-Morales, and Fanny Petermann-Rocha
spent sitting, and 11.8% ( Diaz-Toro, Petermann-Rocha, et al., 2023 ) of them are frail, public health strategies aiming to promote healthy lifestyle behaviors, and routinary detection of frailty could contribute to reducing the excess risk mortality in those with more prolonged sitting time. Strengths
The Civilized Bodies of Middle-Aged Women: A Qualitative Study of Participation in an Exercise Intervention in Denmark
Maria Hybholt
( Krajewski, 2023 ; Wheatley, 2005 ; Wray, 2007 ). Other studies have found more positive experiences of midlife, such as personal growth and freedom following menopause ( Hvas, 2001 ). Individualized consumer-led self-care is highly valued and is promoted through public health strategies in Western society
Self-Reported Vision Loss, Health Status, and Social Participation Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults—Evidence From China
Xiaodong Zhang, Yuqian Lin, and Chengmeng Zhang
government should gradually increase the proportion of preventive healthcare expenditures in total public health spending. Specifically, the government could set up special funds for large-scale vision screening programs to minimize the negative impact of vision loss on middle-aged and elderly individuals
The Value of Mind–Body Connection in Physical Activity for Older People
Heidi Gilchrist, Abby Haynes, Juliana S. Oliveira, Anne Grunseit, Catherine Sherrington, Adrian Bauman, Roberta Shepherd, and Anne Tiedemann
Falls are a major public health issue globally; they are a leading cause of fatal and nonfatal health loss worldwide ( James et al., 2020 ) and the primary cause of injury-related death in people aged 70 years and over ( World Health Organization, 2014 ). Physical activity in older age is important
Association Between Moderate Physical Activity Level and Subsequent Frailty Incidence Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Population-Based Cohort Study
Wenjing Zhao, Shigekazu Ukawa, Sachiko Sasaki, Emiko Okada, Tomoko Kishi, Kastunori Kondo, and Akiko Tamakoshi
brief-type self-administered diet history questionnaires against 16 d dietary records in Japanese adults . Public Health Nutrition, 14 ( 7 ), 1200 – 1211 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980011000504 21477414 Kojima , G. ( 2015 ). Frailty as a predictor of future falls among community
