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| How can we tailor exercise programs for older adults with a chronic illness? | | Author(s) | Andrew Wister, Zan Romeder |
| Journal title | GRC News, vol 19, no 2, August 2000 |
| Publisher | Vancouver, August 2000 |
| Pages | pp 1-4 |
| Keywords | Exercise ; Chronic illness ; Projects ; Canada. |
| Annotation | It is estimated that between 30% and 40% of North Americans aged 65 and over are sedentary, and some 60% are not sufficiently active to achieve the benefits of physical activity. Therefore there is a need to understand the barriers and facilitators of physical activity among older adults managing a chronic illness, so as to assist the development and implementation of efforts to improve levels of physical activity specifically targeting this population group. This article considers the use of the transtheoretical model (Prochaska & DiClemente, 1982) applied to a wide variety of health behaviours, including physical activity (Prochaska & Markus, 1994), in order to understand how and why people change their activity levels to prevent illness and restore their health. (KJ). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001102201 A |
| Classmark | CEA: CI: 3E: 7S |
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