Characteristics of community-based exercise programs for community-dwelling older adults in rural/regional areas: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT: Community-based exercise programs for older adults play a potentially important role in mitigating the decline in functional outcomes, body composition, psychosocial outcomes, and cardiovascular health outcomes that commonly occurs with advancing age. There is a limited understanding of the characteristics and effectiveness of community-based exercise programs, particularly when those programs are offered outside metropolitan areas. Rural/regional settings face unique challenges, such as limited access to equipment/resources, transportation, and services, as well as significant costs to run programs. The objective of this scoping review was to characterise studies in the field that have aimed to implement community-based programs in settings identified as rural / regional. A secondary aim

SUBMITTER: Fien S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8852913 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature