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Developing an assessment based on physical fitness age to evaluate motor function in frail and healthy elderly women
- Source :
- Clinical Interventions in Aging
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Dove Press, 2018.
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Abstract
- Masaki Nakagaichi,1 Yuya Anan,2 Yuto Hikiji,3 Sou Uratani4 1Sports and Life Sciences, National Institute of Fitness and Sports in KANOYA, Kanoya, Japan; 2Department of Nutritional Health, Kwassui Women’s University, Nagasaki, Japan; 3Department of Rehabilitation, Nagasaki Yuai Hospital, Kyoseikai Medical Corporation, Nagasaki, Japan; 4Nonprofit Organization Nagasaki Wellness Sports Research Center, Nagasaki, Japan Objectives: The purpose of this study was to identify a method for assessing physical fitness age that is easy to use with both frail and healthy elderly women and to examine its validity.Methods: Principal component analysis was used to develop a formula of physical fitness age from four motor function variables. The subjects comprised 688 (75.7±6.0 years) elderly women, in order to develop a physical fitness scale. The formula for calculating physical fitness age was expressed as physical fitness age =-0.419× grip strength -0.096×balancing on one leg with eyes open-0.737×30s chair stand +0.503×figure-of-8 walking test +0.47× chronological age +52.68.Results: Measures obtained from subjects in the frail elderly (n=11, 73.0±2.3 years) and exercise (n=10, 70.8±3.1 years) groups were used to examine the validity of the assessment. The mean physical fitness age of the frail elderly group (79.0±3.7 years) was significantly higher than its mean chronological age (73.0±2.3 years, p
- Subjects :
- Gerontology
Frail Elderly
Exercise group
Physical fitness
Health Promotion
Motor Activity
Motor function
03 medical and health sciences
Grip strength
0302 clinical medicine
physical fitness age
Humans
Medicine
Frail elderly
030212 general & internal medicine
Original Research
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Walking test
business.industry
motor function
aging
030229 sport sciences
General Medicine
Healthy elderly
Chronological age
frail and health elderly women
care prevention
Physical Fitness
Clinical Interventions in Aging
Female
Geriatrics and Gerontology
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 11781998
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical Interventions in Aging
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5425a4a04dc0d965c553ebee0a048653