Experts say there is one exercise people should focus on above all others if they want to live longer - and it's one that can ...

Objective—To assess the effectiveness of exercise programmes in preventing falls (and/or lowering the risk of falls and fall related injuries) in older people. Design—A review of controlled clinical ...

But getting older doesn't have to mean slowing down. The trick to aging well is ensuring you keep the same healthy habits and prioritizing your physical fitness. A well-rounded exercise routine ...

Their objective was to establish their usefulness for the online prescription of physical exercise and to determine whether they are adapted to older people's needs. The work is published in the ...

The review looked at two different ways of measuring falls. Firstly, they found that exercise reduces the number of falls over time by around a quarter (23% reduction). This means that if there were ...

10 Today is an exercise programme from Sport England and Demos designed for older people to protect against poor health and disease, and improve mental health and maintain independence.

Q: My parents are both retired medical professionals who are in their early 70s. My father has diabetes that he manages with medication, and he also has a history of ...

The National Health Exercise Program - the precursor to Radio ... Today, the broadcast is followed by workers, schoolchildren and elderly people hoping to reap the health benefits of this small ...

Conclusions: The elderly people who regularly practiced tai chi not only showed better proprioception at the ankle and knee joints than sedentary controls, but also better ankle kinaesthesis than ...

Across parks of Beijing, groups of elderly people can be seen ‘square dancing’, exercising, or playing different types of games. These parks are spaces not just for exercising but for social ...