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Active Living Tips: Is Ageism Slowing You Down?
Research shows that elders can benefit more than anyone from being active 30 to 60 minutes every day. Generally, the more you do, the better you will feel. And you may reduce your risk of disease by up to 50%. So why aren't you active?
Source: Active Living Coalition for Older Adults
Physical activity
Active people are more productive, with less time off work for illness and injury. They also report greater self-esteem and personal self-reliance. For youth in particular, physical activity offers a creative outlet for leisure time.
Source: ACTIVE2010
Canada's Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living for Older Adults
This Health Canada publication explains why physical activity is important, offers tips and easy ways to increase physical activity, and states how much is needed to maintain good health and improved quality of living later in life.
Source: Health Canada
Canadian Centre for Activity and Aging
The mission of the Canadian Centre for Activity and Aging is to develop, encourage and promote an active, healthy lifestyle for Canadian adults that will enhance the dignity of the aging process.
Source: Canadian Centre for Activity and Aging
Overcoming Ageism in Active Living
This report dicusses the sterotypes preventing older adults from engaging in physical activity and the how they can be overcome in order to improve the health of Canadian seniors.
Source: Active Living Coalition for Older Adults
Physical Activity and Older Adults
The Guide provides a rainbow of physical activities that can help you have more energy, move more easily, and get stronger. It tells you how much activity you should strive for and how to get started. It also lists the many benefits of physical activity and the health risks of inactivity.
Source: Government of Canada. Health Canada.
Physical activity: a fountain of youth
This Web page provides a quiz which you can take to assess your fitness knowledge.
Source: Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute
Walking for older women
A column published in the Lifestyle Tips series, with tips and insights on becoming more active and maintaining an active lifestyle.
Source: Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute
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