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Do "young-old" exercisers feel better than sedentary persons?
— a cohort study in Switzerland | | Author(s) | Christian J Lalive d'Epinay, Jean-François Bickel |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 22, no 2, Summer 2003 |
| Pages | pp 155-166 |
| Keywords | Young elderly ; Exercise ; Inactivity ; Good Health ; Well being ; Cross sectional surveys ; Switzerland. |
| Annotation | From a "successful ageing" perspective, the subjective feeling of well-being is as important as "objective" health. Physical exercise is seen as being an effective way of staying healthy, but its link with well-being in a normal ageing population remains largely unexplored. Based on two randomised surveys of Switzerland's ageing population conducted in 1979 and 1994 respectively, with questionnaires including retrospective questions on activities and health, two cohorts of young-old (aged 64-74) were selected: cohort 1, of 949, born 1905-1914; and cohort 2, of 602, born 1920-1929. These were split into four groups, corresponding to their exercise trajectories: long-term exercisers (LE), new exercisers (NE), quitters (Q), and sedentary (S). Regression analyses were used to examined the link between the four trajectories and two indicators of well-being (self-rated health, self-assessed depression scale). In both groups, the LE group had a higher level of well-being than the Q and S groups. The study also throws light on the case of the quitters who showed the lowest level of well-being. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030829206 A |
| Classmark | BBA: CEA: C5: CD: D:F:5HH: 3KB: 76C |
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