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Effect of Exercise Prescription Service Customized for the Elderly in Community

2016; Volume: 8; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.14257/ijbsbt.2016.8.3.09

2208-9810

Mi Ran Lee, Hee Eun Nam, Seon Hee Kim,

Health and Wellbeing Research

This study has applied 'the exercise prescription customized for the elderly' program for each type of physical exercise in consideration of the needs of the elderly residents living in community and then analyzed the effect. The subject was the low-income women aged 60 and older who live in areas and 20 persons were selected respectively from each group of yoga, dance and sports massage. We implemented exercise prescription for 60 minutes twice a week over 36 weeks against 3 groups in 3 social service stronghold institutions and analyzed the effect by monitoring the results from the exercise. The result shows that muscle, flexibility and agility was improved after exercise in each group of yoga, dance and sports massage and there was some difference between groups. Among various sports programs, the effect of exercise was the most significant in yoga group. So it was found that exercise prescription program to which physical properties of female elderly in local community can improve their health, makes the independent daily life possible and provided positive effect to the life quality of the elderly.