Ageing, fitness and morbidity.

PA Rechnitzer - Canadian Medical Association Journal, 1983 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Chronic illness accounts for more than 80% of all deaths and for an even higher proportion
of cases of total disability. 5 The challenge for the next few decades will be not only to …

[CITATION][C] Physical fitness

K Rodahl - Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1958 - Wiley Online Library
Age is a relative concept. It changes with the individual as he grows older; it changes with
time from century to century, and it varies from one culture to another. In ancient times an old …

Aging, fitness and muscular performance

S Fowlie - Reviews in Clinical Gerontology, 1991 - cambridge.org
A decrease in habitual physical activity accompanies old age in mammalian species and in
healthy man. 74,142 This is not simply a consequence of a parallel decline in exercise …

[HTML][HTML] Physical fitness, cardiovascular function and age

HL TAYLOR, HJ MONTOYE - … Report and Selected Papers from a …, 1975 - books.google.com
A good deal is known about the deterioration of the several components of physical fitness
between 45 and 60 or 65 years of age. Systematic information in the area after the age of …

[HTML][HTML] PHYSICAL FITNESS, CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION AND AGE-DISCUSSANT'S PERSPECTIVE

R ALEXANDER - Epidemiology of Aging: Summary Report and …, 1975 - books.google.com
I admire Doctors Taylor and Montoye for tackling logically a very difficult area. In the
absence of any better index of physical activity, they have explored questionnaire …

Effect of exercise on aging—effect of aging on exercise

W M. Bortz - Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1980 - Wiley Online Library
The coincidence of age changes with alterations in body structure and function is striking.
Increasing evidence indicates that many of the changes commonly attributable to aging can …

[CITATION][C] Clinical Medicine Symposium Functional Capacities Of Older Individuals

E Simonson - Journal of Gerontology, 1958 - academic.oup.com
Functional capacity involves three fundamental aspects, as illustrated in figure 1: physical
fitness, earning capacity, and resistance to disease. They are interrelated, but differ in …

Physical capabilities, exercise and aging

EJ Bassey - Reviews in Clinical Gerontology, 1997 - cambridge.org
Being able to perform physically at a level which ensures a satisfying and independent life is
taken for granted in youth, but it comes under threat as physical capabilities deteriorate with …

Physical exercise in the elderly

AP Goldberg, JM Hagberg - Handbook of the biology of aging, 1990 - books.google.com
Aging is characterized by progressive declines in the functional reserve capacity of several
major organ systems. The more prominent declines in organ function with aging are a …

[CITATION][C] Physiology of exercise and aging

HA DeVries - Aging, 1975 - Van Nostrand New York