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    A Guide From The National Institute On On Aging

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    Regular exercise provides significant health benefits for older adults. Research shows that exercise can improve health across all age groups, including those over 90 years old and those with frailty or age-related diseases. Staying physically active through endurance, strength, and flexibility exercises can help prevent diseases, disabilities, and hospitalizations that often accompany aging. It can also improve health and quality of life for older adults who already have diseases or disabilities.

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    Regular exercise provides significant health benefits for older adults. Research shows that exercise can improve health across all age groups, including those over 90 years old and those with frailty or age-related diseases. Staying physically active through endurance, strength, and flexibility exercises can help prevent diseases, disabilities, and hospitalizations that often accompany aging. It can also improve health and quality of life for older adults who already have diseases or disabilities.

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    Regular exercise provides significant health benefits for older adults. Research shows that exercise can improve health across all age groups, including those over 90 years old and those with frailty or age-related diseases. Staying physically active through endurance, strength, and flexibility exercises can help prevent diseases, disabilities, and hospitalizations that often accompany aging. It can also improve health and quality of life for older adults who already have diseases or disabilities.

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    A Guide from the National Institute on on Aging


    Most people know that exercise is good for them. Somehow, though, older adults
    have been left out of the picture - until recently. Today a new picture is emerging
    from research: Older people of different physical conditions have much to gain from
    exercise and from staying physical active. They also have much to lose if they
    become physically inactive.

    Exercise isn't just for older adults in the younger age range, who live independently
    and are able to go on brisk jog, although this book is for them, too. Researchers
    have found that exercise and physical activity also can improve the health of people
    who are 90 or older, who are frail, or who have the diseases that seem to
    accompany aging. Staying physically active and exercising regularly can help
    prevent or delay some diseases and disabilities as people grow older. In some
    cases, it can improve health for older people who already have diseases and
    disabilities, if it's done on a long term, regular basis

    . Three types of exercises help older adults gain benefits


    Endurance exercises increase your breathing and heart rate. They improve the
    health of your heart, lungs, and circulatory system. Having more endurance not
    helps keep you healthier, it can also improve your stamina for the tasks you need to
    do to live and do things on your own climbing stairs and grocery shopping, for
    example. Endurance exercises also may delay or prevent any diseases associated
    with aging, such as diabetes, colon cancer, heart disease, stroke, and others, and
    reduce overall death and hospitalization rates.

    Strength exercises build your muscles, but they do more than just make you
    stronger. They give you more strength to do things on your own. Even very small
    increases in muscle can make a big difference in ability, especially for fall people.
    Strength exercises also increase your metabolism, helping to keep your weight and
    blood sugar in check. That's important because obesity and diabetes are major
    health problems for older adults. Studies suggest that strength exercises also may
    help prevent osteoporosis.

    Flexibility exercise help keep your body limber by stretching your muscles and the
    tissues that hold your body structures in place. Physical therapists and other health
    professionals recommend certain stretching exercises to help patients recover from
    injuries from happening in the first place. Flexibility also may play in preventing falls.

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