Physical Activity in Aging
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Cengiz Açıl,
H.
(ed.)
2023.
Health Sciences Research: Nursing and Midwifery.
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Increasing average human life expectancy results in a rapidly growing aging population in our societies, and lifestyle changes including weight loss and physical exercise have a major impact in correcting metabolic anomalies, improving cardiovascular health and delaying premature aging. Aging is a multifactorial process that leads to physical, psychological, and health-related declines associated with a variety of chronic conditions. Physical activity is any bodily movement that results in increased energy expenditure and can be accomplished through a variety of leisure, work, or transportation-related activities. Physical activity improves both diseased and disease-free life expectancy and the healthy life expectancy (healthy life expectancy) of the elderly. Therefore, promoting high levels of physical activity should be considered a powerful tool to delay premature aging.
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Copyright (c) 2023 Çiğdem Müge Haylı- Dilek Demir Kösem- Zeynep Demir- Emine Şişko- İbrahim Topuz- Nalan Bostan Akmeşe- Ayşe Topuz- Pervin Köksel- Ayşe Çuvadar- Suzan Onur- Zehra Çerçer- Evşen Nazik- İlknur Yücel- Nasrullah Er- Adile Neşe- Ferdane Koçoğlu- Hatun Erkuran- Sercan Kara- Özlem Akman- Naciye Esra Koyuncu- Serpil Su; Hande Cengiz Açıl