Physical Activity and Healthy Aging in Older Adults

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Healthy aging

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Contents
Literature review..............................................................................................................................3
Introduction..................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................7

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Literature review
Introduction
Healthy aging is terms that define the opportunities a person or an individual gets for good
health, so as the older citizens can actively participate in the society with independent and good
quality of life. Aging doesn't reduce a person’s capability to contribute to society, as the elder
people will be able to make a much valued and appreciable contribution to society. People can
enjoy a high quality of life (Bousquet et al., 2015).
The essay is based on the subject of healthy aging with physical training and exercise. It includes
the critical evaluation of the subject with some agreements and disagreements on the topic and
conclusion of the essay stating the work done in the essay.
Healthy aging
Healthy aging is a concept of being getting healthy in old age for participating in society with
their mindfulness. Healthy aging has motivated senior citizens to be healthy and work on their
physical issues like back and joint pain and bad mental health and unreliable memory (Bousquet
et al., 2015).
In today's scenario, people are keener to live healthily and try to be active and more productive
than before. Based on research, it has been seen that now a day's people are quite excited to live
a longer and healthier life and for that, they have adopted healthy aging. This does not only
include having healthy food but also needs physical training and exercise for the body.
Physical activity and resisting training
Physical activities and resisting training are two different parts that conglomerate to make the
good health and physique of a person (Bauman et al., 2016). The physical activity is the subject
of strength of a person to cure or prevent the injury of a person, and resisting training involves
the physical work on the muscles of the person which increases the strength of muscle by
working on muscles through weight or force.

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Both of these activities are necessary to have a good physical as well as mental health for a
person.
According to Cartee et al., (2016) Healthy aging concept is beyond the absence of disease in a
person but it is considered as the process through which an elderly or older person can make
changes in their lives by adopting those changes (Bauman et al., 2016). This allows an old
individual to maintain and preserve their physical, mental as well as social well-being. The term
is intensely linked with 6the maintenance of old age and identifying the symptoms of old age
with their determinants. Verdijk et al., (201), Stated that in the year 1990, the World Health
Organization accepted the term active ageing for healthy ageing which determines that it is the
process where the person seeks to enhance the opportunities continuously for health and safety,
so that they can participate in the society and then they can live and enjoy quality of life (Franco
et al., 2016). With this context, the word active has been used in the context of the physical
capacity of the individual with relation to the workforce and their continuous participation in
society as well as political issues and many more issues which re related to the community they
belong to.
Paddon-Jones et al., (2015), adds to it that the with the study of healthy aging and habit of having
healthy aging for elderly people encouraged many people to participate in the education groups
to create awareness among more people about it (Thomas et al., 2016). He also agreed that these
groups can create habits for prevention for disease and make improvements in the health of the
elder people. These people can participate in society and these groups aim to make the strong
network of the older people and the health professionals.
Fisher et al., (2015), Stated that there are certain groups of people or professionals who favor the
growth of healthy aging, positive behavior and enhance the self-rule among the elderly people,
whilst it also boosts up the self-esteem of the person and encourages them to live a better life and
makes them include social life in their routine (Cunti and Bellantonio, 2018). Cartee,et al.,
(2016), agreed on the fact that these groups have a good influence on the people where they
create an environment for people with familiarity and reflection such as sharing their love and
sadness, releasing tensions, reducing the feeling of depression and insecurity or fear (Voss,
2018).

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The other aspect of healthy ageing is physical activities and resisting training on which Voss
(2018), Said that both the things are very essential for a person to live a healthy life and get the
physical fitness as well reduce the inefficiencies in a person by regularly doing some physical
activities (Bouaziz et al., 2016). Cunti, & Bellantonio, (2018), added to it that physical activities
provide some benefits to the people by improving energy and reducing the tiredness, provides
proper sleep and helps to fight with the mental issues like depression, anxiety and stress. These
activities allow a person to meet with different people and spend some time with them to relax
and get motivated by them.
Verdijk et al., (2016), Suggested that people should have the habit of doing resistant training
twice a week for better health and physique which will provide certain benefits to the people for
every age such as it increases the bone strength which is good for the elderly people who are
supposed to have the joint issues and it subsequently also reduces the chances of internal injury
to the people and develops the muscle mass, so that a person can easily burn the calories and feel
healthy (Li et al., 2017).

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Conclusion
The essay has described the healthy living and aging for the elderly people by motivating and
encouraging them for living healthy and meeting different people. These types of people live in
the society and interact more with the similarly aged people and want to share their views on the
political aspect, social issues or personal issues. Physical activities and resistant training involve
people to live healthy physically and mentally by exercises and physical training. The essay has
described the benefits of healthy living and physical activities which were discussed by various
authors in the same context.

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