Physical Activity Does Not Provide Health Benefits in Young Only: Advocating to Engage seniors to Get an Active Lifestyle by Walid Bouaziz in OAJGGM - Juniper Publishers
In the last century, western societies have experienced a demographic
shift towards an ever-increasing aging population. Over the last
half-century the number of adults aged 70 or over has simply tripled;
and by 2025-2030, this population wills begrowing 3.5 times as rapidly
as the general population [1]. Europe may currently lead the world with the highest proportions of older individuals, but this may not last much longer [2].
By 2050, nearly four-fifths of the world's older popu-lation will be
living in the developing and less-developed regions of the world. Whilst
the ageing of the general population is one of the humanity's greatest
triumphs, it also confronts societies with enormous medical challenges [3].
Indeed, lengthening lifespan is not necessarily synonymous with
extending life in good health and studies suggested that with advancing
age chronic and degenerative disorders became more and more prevalent
and that multimorbidity is increasing [4].
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