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Web-based interventions to promote physical activity by older adults: promising perspectives for a public health challenge
Mouton, Alexandre; Cloes, Marc
2013In Archives of Public Health, 71
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Keywords :
Physical activity; Web-based interventions; Older adults
Abstract :
[en] Regular physical activity is associated with a wide range of health benefits. As population age, promotion of physical activity should specifically target older adults, an expanding group involving potential higher health care costs in the near future. Innovative interventions focusing on physical activity behaviors of senior adults exposed promising results, most recently through the use of the Internet. If seniors and Internet are generally considered as two opposite concepts, arguments in favour of bringing them together in a public health perspective have been identified by the recent literature. Older adults are the fastest growing group of Internet users and are more prone than younger to use it for health-related subjects. Web-based interventions are effective in many health promotion sectors, including physical activity. This is particularly true when interventions target the environmental determinants of each senior citizen and are specifically designed for this population. Those early research findings must clearly be extended, particularly regarding to the long term effects of Webbased physical activity interventions. Solutions that will reduce the high dropout rate recorded in the existing literature must also be considered as a priority in order to ensure the development of this forward-looking field of research.
Disciplines :
Public health, health care sciences & services
Author, co-author :
Mouton, Alexandre  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Centre interfacultaire de formation des enseignants (CIFEN)
Cloes, Marc ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de la motricité > Intervention et gestion en activités physiques et sportives
Language :
English
Title :
Web-based interventions to promote physical activity by older adults: promising perspectives for a public health challenge
Publication date :
02 July 2013
Journal title :
Archives of Public Health
ISSN :
0778-7367
eISSN :
2049-3258
Publisher :
Scientific Institute of Public Health, Bruxelles, Belgium
Volume :
71
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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