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| The relationship between engagement in leisure activities and self-rated health in later life | | Author(s) | Ingeborg Nilsson, Erling Haggstrom Lundevaller, Anne G Fisher |
| Journal title | Activities, Adaptation and Aging, vol 41, no 2, 2017 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, 2017 |
| Pages | pp 175-190 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Recreation ; Participation ; Health [elderly] ; Quality of life ; Preventative medicine ; Correlation ; Finland ; Sweden. |
| Annotation | The aim of this study was to examine leisure engagement among people in later life and the potential relationship between leisure engagement and self-rated health. Data were collected by a posted questionnaire survey from a representative sample of 5,435 people aged 65 to 80 living in northern Sweden and Finland. Results revealed that levels of leisure engagement decreased progressively between the youngest and the oldest age groups. A significant relationship was found between leisure engagement and self-rated health. The relationship between leisure engagement and health, as well as implications for developing health promotion programs are discussed. This study was conducted within the Gerda Botnia project and data collection (Gerontological Regional Database 2011, GERDA), and is a result of cooperation between universities in western Finland and northeast Sweden during 2004-2012. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180126219 A |
| Classmark | H: TMB: CC: F:59: LK2: 49: 76L: 76P |
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