Conference presentation
Increasing the healthy activities of older people: A behavioural approach
Australasian Journal on Ageing, Vol.26(Supplement 1), pp.A45-A46
Wiley
40th National Conference of the Australian Association of Gerontology (Adelaide, Australia, 21/11/2007–23/11/2007)
2007
Abstract
Despite considerable resources being directed towards healthy living initiatives and mass media campaigns urging older people to adopt more physically active lifestyles, 75.2% of Australians over the age of 65 were considered “sedentary” in a recent National Heath Survey (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2006). Improving the health and wellbeing of older people involves arranging supportive contexts and self-management of more physically active behaviours – an area that has received surprisingly little attention by behaviour analysts.This paper explores mainstream,
approaches to increasing the healthy activities of older
people, gives the rationale for a comprehensive, home-based
behavioural program, and presents a behaviour analytic perspective
as it pertains to the future of health promotion and
healthy living initiatives for older people.
Details
- Title
- Increasing the healthy activities of older people: A behavioural approach
- Authors/Creators
- M.S. Burkhardt (Author/Creator)D.J. Leach (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Australasian Journal on Ageing, Vol.26(Supplement 1), pp.A45-A46
- Conference
- 40th National Conference of the Australian Association of Gerontology (Adelaide, Australia, 21/11/2007–23/11/2007)
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Identifiers
- 991005544028807891
- Copyright
- 2007 COTA
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Psychology
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference presentation
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