Co-creating Digital Services to Promote Active Lifestyle among Older Adults: The Turntable Project

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedek Szakonyi ◽  
István Vassányi ◽  
Angelika Mantur-Vierendeel ◽  
Daniela Loi ◽  
Guilherme Correia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Active Lifestyle ◽  
Digital Services

scholarly journals A Double Burden of Exclusion? Digital and Social Exclusion of Older Adults in Times of COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Seifert ◽  
Shelia R Cotten ◽  
Bo Xie
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Network Connectivity ◽  
Double Burden ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Digital Services ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
Digital Exclusion

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has excluded older adults from a society based on physical social contact. Vulnerable populations like older adults also tend to be excluded from digital services because they opt not to use the internet, lack necessary devices and network connectivity, or inexperience using the technology. Older adults who are frail and are not online, many of whom are in long-term care facilities, struggle with the double burden of social and digital exclusion. This paper discusses the potential outcomes of this exclusion and provides recommendations for rectifying the situation, with a particular focus on older adults in long-term care facilities.

Active Lifestyle Boosts Brain Structure in Older Adults

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Patrice Wendling
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Brain Structure ◽  
Active Lifestyle

scholarly journals An Ontology-Based Framework for a Telehealthcare System to Foster Healthy Nutrition and Active Lifestyle in Older Adults

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (17) ◽  
pp. 2129
Author(s):  
Daniele Spoladore ◽  
Vera Colombo ◽  
Sara Arlati ◽  
Atieh Mahroo ◽  
Alberto Trombetta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Chronic Conditions ◽  
Wearable Sensors ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Active Lifestyle ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Healthy Nutrition ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Specific Health

In recent years, telehealthcare systems (TSs) have become more and more widespread, as they can contribute to promoting the continuity of care and managing chronic conditions efficiently. Most TSs and nutrition recommendation systems require much information to return appropriate suggestions. This work proposes an ontology-based TS, namely HeNuALs, aimed at fostering a healthy diet and an active lifestyle in older adults with chronic pathologies. The system is built on the formalization of users’ health conditions, which can be obtained by leveraging existing standards. This allows for modeling different pathologies via reusable knowledge, thus limiting the amount of information needed to retrieve nutritional indications from the system. HeNuALs is composed of (1) an ontological layer that stores patients and their data, food and its characteristics, and physical activity-related data, enabling the inference a series of suggestions based on the effects of foods and exercises on specific health conditions; (2) two applications that allow both the patient and the clinicians to access the data (with different permissions) stored in the ontological layer; and (3) a series of wearable sensors that can be used to monitor physical exercise (provided by the patient application) and to ensure patients' safety. HeNuALs inferences have been validated considering two different use cases. The system revealed the ability to determine suggestions for healthy, adequate, or unhealthy dishes for a patient with respiratory disease and for a patient with diabetes mellitus. Future work foresees the extension of the HeNuALs knowledge base by exploiting automatic knowledge retrieval approaches and validation of the whole system with target users.

scholarly journals No Evidence That Cognitive and Physical Activities Are Related to Changes in EEG Markers of Cognition in Older Adults at Risk of Dementia

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daria Laptinskaya ◽  
Olivia Caroline Küster ◽  
Patrick Fissler ◽  
Franka Thurm ◽  
Christine A. F. Von Arnim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Cognitive Reserve ◽  
Passive Control ◽  
Auditory Memory ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Active Lifestyle ◽  
Global Coherence ◽  
Memory Decay ◽  
Related Measure

An active lifestyle as well as cognitive and physical training (PT) may benefit cognition by increasing cognitive reserve, but the underlying neurobiological mechanisms of this reserve capacity are not well understood. To investigate these mechanisms of cognitive reserve, we focused on electrophysiological correlates of cognitive performance, namely on an event-related measure of auditory memory and on a measure of global coherence. Both measures have shown to be sensitive markers for cognition and might therefore be suitable to investigate potential training- and lifestyle-related changes. Here, we report on the results of an electrophysiological sub-study that correspond to previously published behavioral findings. Altogether, 65 older adults with subjective or objective cognitive impairment and aged 60–88 years were assigned to a 10-week cognitive (n = 19) or a 10-week PT (n = 21) or to a passive control group (n = 25). In addition, self-reported lifestyle was assessed at baseline. We did not find an effect of both training groups on electroencephalography (EEG) measures of auditory memory decay or global coherence (ps ≥ 0.29) and a more active lifestyle was not associated with improved global coherence (p = 0.38). Results suggest that a 10-week unimodal cognitive or PT and an active lifestyle in older adults at risk for dementia are not strongly related to improvements in electrophysiological correlates of cognition.

scholarly journals Total Daily Physical Activity and the Risk of Parkinsonism in Community-Dwelling Older Adults

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 702-711 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahram Oveisgharan ◽  
Lei Yu ◽  
Robert J Dawe ◽  
David A Bennett ◽  
Aron S Buchman
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Mixed Effects ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Daily Physical Activity ◽  
Active Lifestyle ◽  
Cox Models ◽  
Linear Mixed Effects ◽  
Community Dwelling Older Adults ◽  
Reduced Risk

Abstract Background Physical activity is a modifiable risk factor associated with health benefits. We hypothesized that a more active lifestyle in older adults is associated with a reduced risk of incident parkinsonism and a slower rate of its progression. Methods Total daily physical activity was recorded with an activity monitor in 889 community-dwelling older adults participating in the Rush Memory and Aging Project. Four parkinsonian signs were assessed with a modified motor portion of the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale and summarized as a categorical measure and continuous global parkinsonian score. We used Cox models to determine whether physical activity was associated with incident parkinsonism and linear mixed-effects models to examine if physical activity was associated with the rate of progressive parkinsonism. Results During an average follow-up of 4 years, 233 of 682 (34%) participants, without parkinsonism, developed incident parkinsonism. In Cox models controlling for age, sex, and education, a higher level of physical activity was associated with a reduced risk of developing parkinsonism (hazard ratio = 0.79; 95% CI = 0.70–0.88, p < .001). This association was not attenuated when controlling for cognition, depressive symptoms, Apolipoprotein E ℇ4 allele, and chronic health conditions. In a linear mixed-effects model including all participants (N = 889) which controlled for age, sex, and education, a 1 SD total daily physical activity was associated with a 20% slower rate of progression of parkinsonism. Conclusion Older adults with a more active lifestyle have a reduced risk for parkinsonism and a slower rate of its progression.

German senior citizens’ capabilities for physical activity: a qualitative study

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 1117-1129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Sauter ◽  
Janina Curbach ◽  
Jana Rueter ◽  
Verena Lindacher ◽  
Julika Loss
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Capability Approach ◽  
Senior Citizens ◽  
Close Contact ◽  
Individual Factors ◽  
Active Lifestyle ◽  
Physically Active ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Active Lifestyles

Abstract Sen’s capability approach (CA) has found its way into health promotion over the last few years. The approach takes both individual factors as well as social and environmental conditions into account and therefore appears to have great potential to explore opportunities for (‘capabilities’) and barriers to active lifestyles. Thus, our objective in this study was to investigate which capabilities senior citizens perceive to have available to them in order to be physically active. In Southern Germany, we conducted 26 semi-standardized interviews with senior citizens aged 66–97, as well as 9 interviews with key persons who have close contact to senior citizens in their work life. We identified 11 capabilities which the interviewees considered as important in leading an active lifestyle. They could be grouped into four domains: (1) individual resources, (2) social interactions and norms, (3) living conditions and (4) organizational environment. Results highlight the need for health-promoting interventions that widen the range of capabilities on social and environmental levels in a way that individuals can freely choose to be as physically active as they like. The results make clear that interventions should not only target and involve older adults themselves, but also their families, nursing home staff or community representatives, because these groups are important in shaping older adults’ capabilities for an active lifestyle.

Active lifestyle for older adults with dementia: Wheelchair biking versus other recreational therapy interventions

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Buettner, PhD, LRT, CTRS† ◽  
Suzanne Fitzsimmons, MSN, GNP, ARNP ◽  
Jeffrey D. Labban, MS, PhD ◽  
Beth E. Barba, PhD, RN, FAGHE, FAAN
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Neuropsychiatric Symptoms ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Recreational Therapy ◽  
Time On Task ◽  
Intervention Trial ◽  
Recreation Therapy ◽  
Active Lifestyle ◽  
Therapy Interventions ◽  
Therapy Intervention

This article provides a secondary analysis of data collected from a recreation therapy intervention trial for older adults with dementia and neuropsychiatric symptoms. In a subsample of 54 individuals who received wheelchair (WC) biking on some days and other recreation therapy interventions on other days, a comparison of engagement levels, time engaged, and encouragement needed was completed. The analysis showed that WC biking provided significantly more time on task and significantly higher levels of engagement, and less encouragement was needed. Collecting recreation therapy session engagement data was found to be a simple and useful method of comparing effectiveness of recreation therapy interventions.

A positive association between active lifestyle and hemispheric lateralization for motor control and learning in older adults

2016 ◽  
Vol 314 ◽  
pp. 38-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinsung Wang ◽  
Arthur D’Amato ◽  
Jennifer Bambrough ◽  
Ann M. Swartz ◽  
Nora E. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Motor Control ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Hemispheric Lateralization ◽  
Active Lifestyle

scholarly journals Older adults at risk of a cardiovascular event: a preliminary investigation of their experiences of an active lifestyle scheme in England

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (10) ◽  
pp. 2141-2155 ◽  
Author(s):  
GRANIA FENTON ◽  
KATE HILL ◽  
RACHEL STOCKER ◽  
ALLAN HOUSE
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Cardiovascular Event ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Psychological Benefits ◽  
Framework Analysis ◽  
Active Lifestyle ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Negative Beliefs ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Relational Outcomes

ABSTRACTReducing risk of a cardiovascular event involves adopting healthier lifestyles. Community-based active lifestyle schemes offer support, but problems with uptake, completion and evaluation are common. We report the engagement and experiences of older adults referred to a scheme in England. Data transcribed from a focus group or individual interviews were analysed using thematic framework analysis. Participants reported an increased awareness of health difficulties with age, and described attendance-related psychological benefits, including an increased sense of responsibility for change and having had negative beliefs about age, health and change challenged. Some physical benefits (including reduced weight and blood pressure) were also reported. Those who attended most consistently were more likely to report caring responsibilities and describe positive social and relational outcomes, but were not more likely to report marked physical benefits. We recommend several changes to ensure that schemes meet their objectives and the needs of those referred. Age-related, health and lifestyle beliefs do not prohibit change but influence attendance and so should be addressed. Outcomes should be publicised, and structured, fixed-term programmes, incorporating relapse-prevention strategies, should be delivered to a closed group at flexible times. Active follow-up of non-attenders and improved data collection are also recommended. These should reduce the risk of schemes providing social support at the expense of intended health benefits.

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