Strategies for Promoting Physical Activity in Older Adults: A Scoping Review

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10.2991/978-2-38476-368-9_20How to use a DOI?

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Physical activity; Promotion strategies; Older adults; Scoping review

Abstract

Background

Active physical activity provides benefits for health, especially for the elderly, but there are still many older adults who do not utilize their body's ability to do physical activity. Increasing age causes the elderly to experience a decrease in functional ability so this condition becomes one of the factors in reducing their physical activity. The World Health Organization (WHO) states that the elderly are the least physically active so they are vulnerable to non-communicable diseases. According to global statistics, only 48% of the elderly meet WHO recommendations for active physical activity. This study aimed to identify the various efforts and literature coverage of previous research on physical activity promotion strategies for the elderly. Methods: Scope review by searching for articles with the theme of physical activity promotion for the elderly from four online databases namely Scopus, Pub-med, Springer-link, and Science Direct published from 2020 to 2024. Inclusion criteria included healthy community-dwelling older adults aged 60 years and above, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) from quantitative studies, significant results, and open-access articles in English. Thematic analysis was used to summarize the results. A scoping review was conducted using the PRISMA flow chart method. Results: 559 articles were identified from the online search. Most of the articles addressed the promotion of condition-specific physical activity, subjects’ age was less than 60 years, or non-RCT methods were used. Four articles met the inclusion criteria and were included in the research scoop. One article related to physical activity promotion for older adults by comparing the results of physical activity interventions with successful aging education, using multimodal, and two articles compared direct and Web-based interventions. Conclusions: Physical activity promotion strategies for older adults are effective by providing a variety of individual or combined interventions that are easy to understand, and sustainable followed by monitoring and evaluation, mentorship, cost-effective and community-based, and intervention delivery techniques that are carried out directly together in a group. Strategies using the interactive web and live modalities or recorded and individual modalities are acceptable to improve elderly physical activity.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Sri Suwarni
AU  - Agus Kristiyanto
AU  - Sapja Anantanyu
AU  - Anik Lestari
AU  - Saifudin Zuhri
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/03/04
TI  - Strategies for Promoting Physical Activity in Older Adults: A Scoping Review
BT  - Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Social and Political Sciences (ICoSaPS 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 215
EP  - 221
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-368-9_20
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-368-9_20
ID  - Suwarni2025
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