Le senior sportif, une nouvelle figure du bien vieillir ?
The benefit to health of physical exercise for all the ages of life is recognised by the medical community, and justifies the central place that sport and physical activity now occupy in national plans for aging well. The promotion of an active way of life to preserve the health and independence of...
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2012
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | The benefit to health of physical exercise for all the ages of life is recognised by the medical community, and justifies the central place that sport and physical activity now occupy in national plans for aging well. The promotion of an active way of life to preserve the health and independence of old people has made the image of frail and immobile old age obsolete. But is the elderly sportsman or sportswoman the new figure of successful aging ? Because the effects of physical exercise on health remain ambivalent, the medical norm of ‘neither too much nor too little’ encourages a reasonable use of sport by the old person who wants to stay healthy, and signais the dangers of overdoing it. However a new model of sporting old person is emerging that upsets and challenges the doctors’ recommendations, the veteran competitor and even champion. Is this the future face of aging well ?
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