DOCTORS should prescribe exercise to help older folk live longer, a study shows. Regular workouts were found to reduce the ...

MAINTAINING a youthful appearance is about more than just your skincare routine. An 82-year-old woman revealed the daily step ...

A new article reports that getting 150 minutes of moderate physical activity each week can reduce all-cause mortality by 31% ...

Since then, it has become an essential routine practised several times a week by millions of people across the country, and ...

Q: My parents are both retired medical professionals who are in their early 70s. My father has diabetes that he manages with ...

Objective—To assess the effectiveness of exercise programmes in preventing falls (and/or lowering the risk of falls and fall related injuries) in older people. Design—A review of controlled clinical ...

Fitness experts are urging those in their 50s to engage in key exercises to stay agile into old age, cautioning that ... Alzheimer's passes between two people for the first time in recorded ...

The average age of the participants in the studies was 76 years old and three quarters of them were women. Eighty-one of these trials compared exercise (all types) versus a control intervention (doing ...

10 Today is an exercise programme from Sport England and Demos designed for older people to protect against poor health and disease, and improve mental health and maintain independence.

Conclusions: The elderly people who regularly practiced tai chi not only showed better proprioception at the ankle and knee joints than sedentary controls, but also better ankle kinaesthesis than ...