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  Exercise is no walk in the park for seniors

 

Senior Adults are much more likely to walk extensively if they have journeys that are socially or convenience-related, rather than on attractive tracks and through parks whose beauty is the end itself, according to a recent US study.  In other words, seniors were more active when their efforts were driven by shopping, meeting friends or making trips that they would have otherwise made by car. 

The strongest exercise motivators were shopping and socialising.  Walk ability seemed somewhat dependent upon distance, block size, and perceived safety.  People who normally used public transport were more likely to walk, presumably suggesting that car-drivers’ habits die hard.

 

The recommendation might be, then, live somewhere where you can walk to do all the important things, if you want the excellent and inexpensive benefits of walking.

 

The survey tracked some 900 seniors between the ages of 65 and 97 in Seattle, and was published in March 2007 in the American Journal of Public Health.