In the last 50 years, the number of people over the age of 65 has tripled, and in 2050 this number could represent 25% of the world's population. Aging is considered a risk factor contributing to the development of chronic diseases, frailty, dementia, and several physical, and mental implications. In this sense, global aging brings new challenges to economic, social, and health systems. Hence, researchers and clinicians should focus on providing solid evidence of how active and healthy aging should be considered a priority in health-related policies.
The regular practice of physical exercise promotes several health benefits and can delay some of the negative effects of aging. Therefore, exercise interventions are a key component of healthy aging because it helps to improve physiological outcomes in older people who have gone through long periods of sedentary lifestyle and older individuals with frailty or sarcopenia.
With this Research Topic, we intend to update information on exercise monitoring, testing, and prescription to provide new and more effective non-pharmacological strategies to improve health related outcomes in the elderly. This Research Topic also aims to collect high-quality contributions looking at the aging process from a life-course perspective and focusing on different typologies of older people (e.g. active older adults and older people with long-term care needs) in their living environment (e.g. home, care facilities, daycare center, community).
This Research Topic welcomes submissions of original research, systematic reviews with or without meta-analysis, mini reviews, and protocols. We hypothesize that such article collection would constitute relevant information to apply the best and recent non-pharmacological strategies possible to the intervention process improving or maintain life quality during aging. Areas to be covered in this Research Topic may include, but are not limited to:
• Exercise interventions
• Healthy and active aging
• Health benefits
• Quality of live
• Body composition
• Functional capacity
• Sarcopenia
• Osteoporosis
• Fall prevention
In the last 50 years, the number of people over the age of 65 has tripled, and in 2050 this number could represent 25% of the world's population. Aging is considered a risk factor contributing to the development of chronic diseases, frailty, dementia, and several physical, and mental implications. In this sense, global aging brings new challenges to economic, social, and health systems. Hence, researchers and clinicians should focus on providing solid evidence of how active and healthy aging should be considered a priority in health-related policies.
The regular practice of physical exercise promotes several health benefits and can delay some of the negative effects of aging. Therefore, exercise interventions are a key component of healthy aging because it helps to improve physiological outcomes in older people who have gone through long periods of sedentary lifestyle and older individuals with frailty or sarcopenia.
With this Research Topic, we intend to update information on exercise monitoring, testing, and prescription to provide new and more effective non-pharmacological strategies to improve health related outcomes in the elderly. This Research Topic also aims to collect high-quality contributions looking at the aging process from a life-course perspective and focusing on different typologies of older people (e.g. active older adults and older people with long-term care needs) in their living environment (e.g. home, care facilities, daycare center, community).
This Research Topic welcomes submissions of original research, systematic reviews with or without meta-analysis, mini reviews, and protocols. We hypothesize that such article collection would constitute relevant information to apply the best and recent non-pharmacological strategies possible to the intervention process improving or maintain life quality during aging. Areas to be covered in this Research Topic may include, but are not limited to:
• Exercise interventions
• Healthy and active aging
• Health benefits
• Quality of live
• Body composition
• Functional capacity
• Sarcopenia
• Osteoporosis
• Fall prevention
