Exercise with Elderly People
Bett, Brian Kiprono (2020)
Bett, Brian Kiprono
2020
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020083019974
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020083019974
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The elderly people in society tend to be at risk of developing chronic conditions at their advanced age due to lack of exercise. This study aimed at establishing the effects of exercise among the elderly from peer-to-peer reviewed articles. It focuses on the elderly aged above 65 years old living in home care facilities. It also focuses on identifying the fundamental roles played by nurses in provision of care to the elderly in the community. The majority of the articles revealed that the number of falls decreased during and after the intervention. Additionally, exercise improved their self-confidence, motivation, self-efficacy, and mood. It also reduced anxiety and cognitive functions. The data used for the literature review of this study was collected from article databases such as CINAHL, PubMed, JBL, SAGE, EBSCO host, Google Scholar, and other online manual searches. The manual online searches were done using different keywords and phrases to unearth relevant articles that contained adequate data on the topic of research. All these literature reviews confirmed that exercise affects the elderly physically, socially, mentally, and psychologically.