Physical Activity for Older Adults Research Paper 2022

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LITERATURE REVIEW
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Introduction
The main aim of the paper is to research on the effect of physical activity and resistance
training in the health of the older adult. The study has reviewed four different articles focusing
on aim of the paper. The main purpose of writing the review is to address the evidence based
practice for Mr Frederick in relation of physical activity and resistance with healthy ageing. The
paper describes the key theme of the research paper, the research method and design, the finding
of the paper and area of disagreement and agreement. The paper lastly compare the finding and
suggest the main perspective.
Historical background
Looking into historical background, health of older people deteriorate with aging which
causes slow in metabolism and physical health problem like joint pain and stiffness (Bauman et
al., 2016) . Therefore, research is needed to study the effect of the physical activity and
resistance training in the overall health of the older adult (Keadle et al., 2016).
Authorship
Reviewing the authorship of Daskalopoulou et al. (2017) is faculty of Health Service and
Population Research Department, the qualification of author mainly intend to research on health
service and physiotherapy. Vasiliadis and Belanger (2018) are member of Faculty of Medicine
and Health Sciences, majorly focus to research on aging and medicine. Canada, Li et al. (2018)
researcher of School of Nursing Jilin University Changchun China and Fisher et al. (2017) are
scientist of a Southampton Solent University, East Park Terrace, Southampton, UK are main
focus of interest is research on public health concerning to aging population as these authors are

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qualified in public health. Thus, it can be said that the research focus of these author are relevant
with their qualification.
Research question and aim
From the study of Vasiliadis and Belanger (2018) where the author has done research on
effect of exercise on health and its relation with the quality of life in older adults. The research
question of the study is what is the impact of exercise on the health of the older adults? The
study of Daskalopoulou et al. (2017) is compared with Vasiliadis and Belanger (2018) the key
theme of the paper is healthy ageing and the impact of physical activity. The research question of
the paper was what is the effect of exercise and physical activity in health of older people? The
study by Li et al. (2018) where author focus to find the impact of the resistance training in
cognitive function. The major rationale is that older people face cognitive impairment which also
have negative effect on the health (Buschke et al., 2017). The study of Fisher et al. (2017) also
focus on resistance training and older adult. Where authors aims to study on minimal dose
approach of resistance training and its effect on the older adult. It is often observed that heavy
exercise executed by older people can lead to physical issue like joint pain and risk of falls (Hill
et al., 2016). The finding will help Mr Frederic to analyses the benefit of physical activity for his
joint strength.
Research design and method
The approach of research of all the four studies are quantitative that helps to enhance the
generalisation of the result (Gibson, 2017). Vasiliadis and Belanger (2018) has conducted a
cohort study which is relevant to the research question because cohort studies identify the target
populations to evaluate the issue or aim of the research (Hox et al., 2017). The research method