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The impact of a self-regulated pneumatic resistance intervention on variables related to balance, gait and lower extremity muscle function in community dwelling older adults

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Dolan E., Swinton P., McCoy S., Carver P.

Progress in Health Sciences

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2015

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vol. 5

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issue 1

120-129

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Purpose: To evaluate the impact of self-regulated pneumatic resistance exercise on variables related to balance, gait and lower extremity muscle function in community dwelling older adults. Materials and methods: Thirty-six older adults, aged ≥65 years completed the testing procedure as either the 10 week control (n=18) or intervention (n=18) group. Outcome measures included spatiotemporal gait variables, double leg standing balance assessment (with eyes open and closed), and the five times sit-to-stand measurement. Results were analysed using ANCOVA tests, with baseline values included as a covariate. Results: No change to balance or gait was identified in either group. Participants within the intervention group significantly decreased time taken to complete the five times sit-to-stand test (p=0.006, η_p^2=.218), while no change was reported within the control group. Conclusion: Positive findings of increased lower extremity muscle function indicate that self-regulated pneumatic resistance may represent an appropriate exercise intervention for use in older adults, although the lack of improvement to balance and gait parameters suggest that further research is required to develop delivery modalities for optimum effectiveness in this population.

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Japan’s Approach to Retirement Reform: An International Perspective

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Higo M.

EXLIBRIS Biblioteka Gerontologii Społecznej

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2020

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issue 1 (18) /2020 Old age - international perspective – theory and practice

94-104

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Over the past few decades, most countries around the world have been pressured to reform their conventional retirement systems in our time of rapid population ageing. An effective retirement reform would enable workers to remain in the workforce beyond conventional retirement age for as long as they desire, without their opportunities and decisions being institutionally constrained, so as to help them to secure resources necessary to maintain their socioeconomic wellbeing in later life. Japan deserves special attention in this context; having gone through the world’s fastest population ageing during the 1970s and 1980s, today Japan is far ahead of the rest of the world in this demographic shift. Amid aa global search for effective retirement reforms, while an increasing number of countries across the world have come to adopt an ‘age-free’ a ‘hyper-aged’ Japan has to date taken what may be referred to as an ‘age-friendly’ approach particularly in its policy efforts in the areas of mandatory retirement and public pension programs. This approach seems to have yielded a positive outcome; over the past few decades, older workers’ labor force participation rates have been steadily on the rise, and today the rates are higher than those in most other developed countries. This approach also has remained notably cautious of calling for a drastic reform, such as privatization, to the traditional public pension programs. Japan’s ‘age-friendly’ approach to retirement reform may exemplify a unique and more viable variation of retirement reforms for some other countries. Nonetheless, a continuous, closer and critical analysis of the effectiveness and long-term sustainability of Japan’s approach is called for in order for other rapidly ageing countries to examine whether it is worthwhile for them to follow in the future.

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Ageizm, uczenie się przez całe życie a samorealizacja: krytyczny zarys problematyki

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Novikova K.

Journal of Modern Science

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2015

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issue 3(26)

61-72

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In the article several examples of public discourses were analysed. Discourses on lifelong learning and later life learning included elements of ageism. Positive principles of lifelong learning were compared with the available observations concerning the role of the elderly people in the family and social life in Poland that usually come down to – awaited by larger family – working and material support. Another dimension represented public discourse on longer period of professional activity, learning for longer life with no reference to self-realization, personal development of the elderly or their talents and new skills discovered while taking active part in the learning processes in later life.

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W artykule przeanalizowano przykłady dyskursu publicznego, dotyczącego uczenia się przez całe życie lub uczenia się w późniejszym wieku, zawierającego elementy dyskryminacji ze względu na wiek, określanej jako ageizm. Pozytywne założenia kształcenia ustawicznego do końca życia zostały skonfrontowane z dostępnymi obserwacjami na temat roli seniorów w życiu rodzinnym i towarzyskim w Polsce, sprowadzającej się głównie do wsparcia czynnego lub materialnego, jak i z dyskursem, dotyczącym dłuższej aktywności zawodowej i uczenia się „dla” długiego życia bez wzmianek na temat samorealizacji, rozwoju osobistego seniorów czy odkrycia talentów i nowych umiejętności w trakcie uczenia się w późniejszym wieku.

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The impact of a self-regulated pneumatic resistance intervention on variables related to balance, gait and lower extremity muscle function in community dwelling older adults

Japan’s Approach to Retirement Reform: An International Perspective

Ageizm, uczenie się przez całe życie a samorealizacja: krytyczny zarys problematyki