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Lifetime exercise mode and the propensity of falling in older adults

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2001
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The purpose of this study was to measure a person's propensity for falling in old age based on their lifetime mode of exercise. One hundred independently living older adults were separated into three groups, (1) lifetime start and stop exercisers, SAS, (i.e., basketball, racquet sport players), N = 27; (2) lifetime dynamic exercisers, DYN, (i.e., walkers, runners), N = 48; and (3) a control, C, (inactive), N = 25. Two trials of a timed "Up and Go" test (Podsiadlo & Richardson, 1991) were performed with results ranging from SAS, 5.01 sec +/- 1.16 sec; DYN, 7.04 sec +/- 1.92 sec; and C, 9.95 sec +/- 4.68 sec, mean +/- SD, indicating that lifetime start and stop activities significantly lowers a person's propensity for falling more than dynamic exercise or inactivity.
Title: Lifetime exercise mode and the propensity of falling in older adults.
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Name(s): von Ammon, Victoria Anne
Florida Atlantic University, Degree Grantor
College of Education
Department of Exercise Science and Health Promotion
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 2001
Physical Form: pdf
Extent: 49 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: The purpose of this study was to measure a person's propensity for falling in old age based on their lifetime mode of exercise. One hundred independently living older adults were separated into three groups, (1) lifetime start and stop exercisers, SAS, (i.e., basketball, racquet sport players), N = 27; (2) lifetime dynamic exercisers, DYN, (i.e., walkers, runners), N = 48; and (3) a control, C, (inactive), N = 25. Two trials of a timed "Up and Go" test (Podsiadlo & Richardson, 1991) were performed with results ranging from SAS, 5.01 sec +/- 1.16 sec; DYN, 7.04 sec +/- 1.92 sec; and C, 9.95 sec +/- 4.68 sec, mean +/- SD, indicating that lifetime start and stop activities significantly lowers a person's propensity for falling more than dynamic exercise or inactivity.
Identifier: 9780493418254 (isbn), 12863 (digitool), FADT12863 (IID), fau:9737 (fedora)
Note(s): Adviser: Joseph A. O'Kroy.
Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2001.
Subject(s): Gerontology
Health Sciences, Public Health
Health Sciences, Recreation
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