you may be interested in a conference the Royal College of General
Practitioners and the British Medical Journal are running on June 15th at
Chelsea Village conference centre. The event is entitled 'Exercise and
Sport - The Pros and Cons for Health' and will include a talk on Exercise
and the Elderly. If you would like further details, please email me your
correspondence address and will send you an application form.
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From: TONY BOVAIRD [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 29 March 2000 22:20
To: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]
Subject: fitness, sport and the elderly
Apologies for cross-posting.
I'm involved in some work on how to encourage older people to
undertake fitness-raising activities and sport. I've found little
material on this from the 'usual suspects' e.g. Sport England, Age
Concern, etc.
I'd be grateful for two types of information:
A. Successful initiatives to raise the level of involvement of older
people in fitness-raising activities and sport (ideally, with
evaluations of how well they worked and why).
B Evidence as to which types of activity are useful and which are
likely to be harmful to key groups of older people (e.g. I have found
contradictory advice on whether older people with arthritis should
engage in any physical activity which might affect their joints).
All suggestions gratefully received.
Tony Bovaird
PSMRC
Aston Business School
Aston Triangle
BIRMINGHAM B4 7ET
Tel: 00 44 (0)121 359 3011
Fax: 00 44 (0)121 359 1148
Web site: http://psm.abs.aston.ac.uk/home.html
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