Strategies for Promoting Elders’ Health with Sporting Activities: A Qualitative Study.

Background and Objective: Elderly age is an evolutionary stage and one of the most important periods of life for every human, and exercise plays an important role in the physical and mental health of elderly people. According to the importance of the subject, the aim of this study is identification...

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Main Authors: Hamid Sarani, Najaf Aghaei, Marjan Saffari, Hosein Akbari Yazdi
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Language:fas
Published: Iranian Association of Health Education and Health Promotion 2018-12-01
Series:آموزش بهداشت و ارتقاء سلامت ایران
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Online Access:http://journal.ihepsa.ir/article-1-988-en.html
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author Hamid Sarani
Najaf Aghaei
Marjan Saffari
Hosein Akbari Yazdi
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Najaf Aghaei
Marjan Saffari
Hosein Akbari Yazdi
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description Background and Objective: Elderly age is an evolutionary stage and one of the most important periods of life for every human, and exercise plays an important role in the physical and mental health of elderly people. According to the importance of the subject, the aim of this study is identification of strategies for promoting the health of elderly with sporting activities. Methods: This qualitative study was carried out based on content analysis method. The participants were selected via purposive sampling method. The data collection tool was a semi-structured interview. Researcher reached theoretical saturation after 12 interviews with the elderly and 16 interviews with the key informants. After collecting data, qualitative content analysis method was used for its analysis. Results: 10 themes and 21 subthemes were emerged from data analysis. The themes included establishment of an elderly sports organization, codify a strategic and operational program for the development of older sports, Setting up elder sport rules, Development of places and sports spaces for elders, providing expert human resources, establishing a research and development unit for elderly sports, development of advertising, development and improvement of service quality, development of the culture of aging sports, development of budget for the elderly sports. Conclusion: The results of the study identified ten strategies for improving the health of the elderly with sports activities. According to the findings, it is suggested that managers while planning the promotion of elderly people’s health, considere achieved strategies.
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spelling doaj.art-c20fbc578fc74ebeab6bc741446278a62022-12-21T19:00:41ZfasIranian Association of Health Education and Health Promotionآموزش بهداشت و ارتقاء سلامت ایران2345-32652345-32652018-12-0164325339Strategies for Promoting Elders’ Health with Sporting Activities: A Qualitative Study.Hamid Sarani0Najaf Aghaei1Marjan Saffari2Hosein Akbari Yazdi3 Dept. of Sport Management, University of Kharazmi, Tehran, Iran Dept. of Sport Management, University of Kharazmi, Tehran, Iran Dept. of Sport Management, University of Tarbiat Modares, Tehran, Iran Dept. of Sport Management, University of Kharazmi, Tehran, Iran Background and Objective: Elderly age is an evolutionary stage and one of the most important periods of life for every human, and exercise plays an important role in the physical and mental health of elderly people. According to the importance of the subject, the aim of this study is identification of strategies for promoting the health of elderly with sporting activities. Methods: This qualitative study was carried out based on content analysis method. The participants were selected via purposive sampling method. The data collection tool was a semi-structured interview. Researcher reached theoretical saturation after 12 interviews with the elderly and 16 interviews with the key informants. After collecting data, qualitative content analysis method was used for its analysis. Results: 10 themes and 21 subthemes were emerged from data analysis. The themes included establishment of an elderly sports organization, codify a strategic and operational program for the development of older sports, Setting up elder sport rules, Development of places and sports spaces for elders, providing expert human resources, establishing a research and development unit for elderly sports, development of advertising, development and improvement of service quality, development of the culture of aging sports, development of budget for the elderly sports. Conclusion: The results of the study identified ten strategies for improving the health of the elderly with sports activities. According to the findings, it is suggested that managers while planning the promotion of elderly people’s health, considere achieved strategies.http://journal.ihepsa.ir/article-1-988-en.htmlsport activitiesphysical activitieselderly peopleaging
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Strategies for Promoting Elders’ Health with Sporting Activities: A Qualitative Study.
آموزش بهداشت و ارتقاء سلامت ایران
sport activities
physical activities
elderly people
aging
title Strategies for Promoting Elders’ Health with Sporting Activities: A Qualitative Study.
title_full Strategies for Promoting Elders’ Health with Sporting Activities: A Qualitative Study.
title_fullStr Strategies for Promoting Elders’ Health with Sporting Activities: A Qualitative Study.
title_full_unstemmed Strategies for Promoting Elders’ Health with Sporting Activities: A Qualitative Study.
title_short Strategies for Promoting Elders’ Health with Sporting Activities: A Qualitative Study.
title_sort strategies for promoting elders health with sporting activities a qualitative study
topic sport activities
physical activities
elderly people
aging
url http://journal.ihepsa.ir/article-1-988-en.html
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