Sport and Fitness Activities for Healthy Aging
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 1681
Special Issue Editors
Interests: exercise science; strength & conditioning planning; resistance training; exercise testing; physical fitness; exercise physiology; physical activity assessment; performance testing; personal training
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The implementation of a healthy lifestyle along the lifespan requires the need to promote effective strategies to achieve healthy aging, which refers to “the process of developing and maintaining the functional ability that enables well-being in older age”. In fact, the inevitable psycho-physiological changes faced during the aging process could still be tackled by acting on the domains that characterized the multifactorial nature of aging, like the physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and spiritual dimensions. The maintenance of an active lifestyle is, without a doubt, the strategy to counteract age-associated declines. However, positive behavioral changes and control still represent a challenge for researchers, policy-makers, and practitioners to reach the desired goal of healthy aging. Considering the construct of physical activity, novel sports and fitness activities could be proposed and investigated for their impact on positive behavioral changes toward an active lifestyle. Holistic intervention models focused on all the domains of the aging process with an emphasis on the cognitive and emotional/social dimensions should be further proposed. Therefore, articles in the forms of reviews with meta-analysis and original research centered on prospective longitudinal studies and randomized controlled trials are invited for this Special Issue, especially those combining a high academic standard coupled with practical implications for policy-makers and practitioners.
Dr. Giancarlo Condello
Dr. Pablo Monteagudo Chiner
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- older people
- exercise intervention programs
- master athletes
- functionality
- physical health
- mental health
- health-related quality of life
- behavioral change
