Health benefits from physical activity undertaken by elderly people

Abstract

A regular, moderate physical activity (PA) of elderly people brings them many health benefits. It causes healthy and advantageous ageing, because it contributes to delaying and minimizing of involution processes, maintaining health and functional independence, as well in somatic, as in psychical and social dimension.

Keywords

• health benefits
• physical activity
• elderly people
• efekty zdrowotne
• aktywność fizyczna
• osoby starsze