Kin 150 midterm 2 Aging and physical activity

Question 1

What does a health 24 hours for people 65+ look like? What percent of people meet these?

Answer 1

1. Physical activity
   - At least 150 minutes/week of moderate to high aerobic activity
   - Use major muscle groups at least 2 times/week
   - Activities that challenge balance
2. Sleep
   - Get 7-8 hours of sleep
   - Have consistent wake sleep times
3. Sedentary behaviour
   - Limit sedentary time to 8h a week
   - No more than 3 hours of screen time a day
   - break up long periods of sitting

only 33% of people 65+ meet these expectations

Question 2

What are the major barriers of physical activity for people 65+

Answer 2

1. Health problems
2. Fear of falling
3. Lack of knowledge to exercise safely
4. Competing priorities
5. Access difficulties
6. Physical environment
7. Cost
8. Fatigue and apathy

Question 3

What are the major motivators for physical activity for people 65+

Answer 3

• Improve and maintain health
• Social support
• Social connections
• Knowledgable instructor
• Enjoyable
• Music that they like

Question 4

What is ageisme?

Answer 4

Discrimination against older adults because of their age

Question 5

What is disidentification?

Answer 5

Reconceptualizing your self image in order to remove value from something

Question 6

What are the different determinants that predict if people are active as they age (first 3)

Answer 6

1. Demographic and biological factors:

Age and gender:
- older we get = less active
- As we age men stay more active than woman

Socioeconomic status
- Higher socioeconomic status (more money and education) = more likely to be more physically active

2. behavioural attributes
   - Small relationship between if your physical active when your young correlating to being physically active when old

• team based competitive activities decline with age more than individual non competitive activities

3. Social and cultural factors
   - Social support can cause increased physical activity

-Phycial activity group that are closer to each other = higher attendance rates

• The instructor influences the amount of enjoyment the people have
• Cultural beliefs can affect involvement in physical activity

Question 7

What are the different determinants that predict if people are active as they age (last 2)

Answer 7

4. Physical environment
   - Difficulty getting to the facility
   - Cost
   - unappealing activities
5. Physiological, cognitive and emotional factors

• perceived control, expected benefits, self efficacy
• Most common that affect exercise are enjoyment and perceived health benefits

Question 8

Explain Rowe and Kahn’s model of successful ageing

Answer 8

1. Absense of chronic disease
2. Maintenance of cognitive and physical functioning
3. Active engagement in day to day activities (life behavioural choices)

Question 9

Explain some flaws with the model of successful ageing. Explain the new view of successful ageing

Answer 9

• Having a chronic illness doesn’t mean you can’t thrive
• Cognitive and physical functioning will decrease as you age, but doesn’t man you can’t have high quality of life
• Adapting in a positive ways to changes that happen to us. eg changing intensity or type of exercise as we age

Question 10

Explain how to promote physical activity in later life

Answer 10

• Show positive roll models (masters athletes)
• Provide appropriate types/leveles of physical activity
• Don’t belittle their efforts
• understand everyones reasons for participating in physical activity