The discussion among the physical fitness,physical activities and the living quality of life of aged people attending social activity groups

• Main Authors: CHEN CHAO-YEN, 陳昭彥
• Other Authors: Theresa Chyi
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/48731379919986214924

碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 運動教練研究所 === 93 === The rapidly aging social structure leads to the importance of senior policies and its social welfare. How to manage the social welfare services of the seniors adequately? The aim and the mission of establishing senior welfare associations are to focus on different essential daily activities. These activities have to include nutritional health, physical exercises, fine arts, and leisured. In addition to lengthen its life, the significance of scheduling activities of the seniors is to elevate their living quality to further achieve successful aging. In this study, the correlation ship the amount of physical exercises, health fitness, living quality of the socially actives seniors. Participants over 65 of age are selected from members of social club, Kaohsiung Golden Age Association. Qualified test ants will be asked to fill two separate surveys on the amount of physical exercises and living quality, undergo health fitness examinations, and further be lectured on health subjects and physical exercises over the course of a year. The collected data will be sorted and analyzed by SPSS for Windows 11.O version. These analysis include quantity distribution, mean, standard deviation, independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, dependent sample t-test. On regard of health fitness, the comparison of fitness index number between male and female in 2004 and 2005 only showed significant differences in cardiopulmonary function (male senior 17.3±3.9, female senior 7±11.7), and average physical exercise amount (male＝162.4±46.8, and female＝117.6±35.6) via t-test. On regard of living quality, body function and body pain showed significant difference (p<0.05). The result also showed significant difference between high physical exercising group and medium physical exercising group, also between high physical exercising group and low physical exercising group (P<0.05). Different physical exercising amount reflected significant differences on body functioning; the senior with higher exercising amount have better body functioning than the others. The health fitness of the seniors showed direct relationship with the increase amount of physical exercise. Adequate increase in physical exercising amount can enhance the effect, and further promote the living qualities of the seniors.