We've seem in a previous blog that seniors can reduce the risk of falls by increasing body strength and improving balance through regular physical activity (Judge 1993; Lord 1993; Campbell 1999). Recent research by Dr. Phillippe Perrin of the Universite Henri Poincare-Nancy, at Villers-les-Nancy investigated 130 men and women who averaged 70 years of age and showed that seniors who are active in their older years, no matter when they start benefit about the same as seniors who exercise all of their life. Also, individuals who are active their whole life but sedentary in their old age are nor better off than individuals who are sedentary for most of their life. Once again we see the value of any form of exercise.
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