JMIR Aging, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Сен. 14, 2024

Older adults face several barriers to exercise participation, including transportation, lack of access, and poor weather conditions. Such may influence whether older meet the Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines. Recently, have adopted technology for health care are increasingly using digital technologies improve their access care. Therefore, be a valuable tool reduce increase participation rates within this population. This study aimed explore adults' perceptions experiences exercise, in general, specifically related our synchronous online program community-dwelling adults. A total 3 registered kinesiologists 1 physiotherapist with experience working delivered an 8-week, thrice-weekly group-based cohorts. The focused on strength, balance, aerobic activity. Following program, qualitative interpretive descriptive design was conducted participants' experiences. Participants were invited take part 30-minute, one-on-one semistructured interview via Zoom research team member. Interview data thematically analyzed identify common themes. 22 (16 women, 6 men; mean age 70, SD 4 years) participated interviews. Three themes identified as follows: (1) health, aging beliefs; (2) pandemic interruption impacts; (3) programs attenuate exercise. discussed beliefs behaviors desire safely correctly participate found that physical activity curtailed, routines disrupted, in-person revoked due pandemic. However, many suggested motivational attenuated commonly reported environmental such transportation concerns (eg, time spent traveling, driving, parking), accessibility convenience by participating at location choice, removing travel-related during Given these experiences, we posit help motivate maintain adherence These findings leveraged outcomes

Язык: Английский