2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Development of a special program to elongate their healthy life expectancy: introducing elder people who live in isolated islands to an exercise program

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23700813
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Applied health science
Research Institution	St. Catherine University
Principal Investigator	MARUYAMA Yuji 聖カタリナ大学, 人間健康福祉学部, 准教授 (70587930)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2012
Keywords	高齢者
Research Abstract	This study was investigated to develop an exercise program for elder people, living in isolated islands and most of them are engaged in agriculture, to elongate their healthy life expectancy. Subjects were elder people in isolated islands and were assigned into two groups ;an exercise group and control group(control group 1). In addition to it, elder people who live in urban area were also assigned into control group (control group 2). Those three groups were compared in this study. Subjects in exercise group performed the exercise program for three months and their physical strength and habits in daily life were compared before and after the program by testing scores and questionnaires. As a result, scores of testing and answers in the questionnaires of exercise group were significantly improved than control groups. Therefore, it was suggested that the exercise program in this study was effective to elongate their healthy life expectancy for elder people who live in isolated iss

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