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    Regular exercise provides several health benefits for older adults, including strengthening bones and muscles to help prevent injuries from falls like hip fractures. It can also improve arthritis symptoms and ability to do daily tasks. Engaging in both aerobic and muscle-strengthening activities a few times a week reduces the risk of functional limitations and decreases the chances of early death from leading causes.

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    Regular exercise provides several health benefits for older adults, including strengthening bones and muscles to help prevent injuries from falls like hip fractures. It can also improve arthritis symptoms and ability to do daily tasks. Engaging in both aerobic and muscle-strengthening activities a few times a week reduces the risk of functional limitations and decreases the chances of early death from leading causes.

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    Regular exercise provides several health benefits for older adults, including strengthening bones and muscles to help prevent injuries from falls like hip fractures. It can also improve arthritis symptoms and ability to do daily tasks. Engaging in both aerobic and muscle-strengthening activities a few times a week reduces the risk of functional limitations and decreases the chances of early death from leading causes.

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    Benefit of exercise

    Strengthen Your Bones and Muscles

    As you age, it’s important to protect your bones, joints, and muscles – they
    support your body and help you move. Keeping bones, joints, and muscles
    healthy can help ensure that you’re able to do your daily activities and be
    physically active. Doing aerobic, muscle-strengthening, and bone-
    strengthening physical activity at a moderately-intense level can slow the
    loss of bone density that comes with age.

    Hip fracture is a serious health condition that can have life-changing negative
    effects, especially if you’re an older adult. Physically active people have
    a lower risk of hip fracture than inactive people.

    Among older adults, physical activity also reduces the risk of falling and


    injuries from falls. Physical activity programs that include more than one type
    of physical activity are most successful at reducing falls and fall-related
    injuries. Different types of physical activity include aerobic, muscle
    strengthening, and balance physical activities. Also, weight bearing activities
    such as running, brisk walking, jumping jacks and strength training produce a
    force on the bones. These activities that can help promote bone growth and
    bone strength and reduce the risk of fall-related injuries and fractures.

    Regular physical activity helps with arthritis and other rheumatic


    conditions affecting the joints. Doing 150 minutes a week of moderate-
    intensity aerobic physical activity, if able, plus muscle-strengthening activity
    improves your ability to manage pain and do everyday tasks and improves
    quality of life.

    Build strong, healthy muscles. Muscle-strengthening activities like lifting


    weights can help you increase or maintain your muscle mass and strength.
    This is important for older adults who experience reduced muscle mass and
    muscle strength with aging. Slowly increasing the amount of weight and
    number of repetitions you do as part of muscle strengthening activities will
    give you even more benefits, no matter your age.

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    Improve Your Ability to do Daily Activities and Prevent Falls


    A functional limitation is a loss of the ability to do everyday activities such as
    climbing stairs, grocery shopping, or playing with your grandchildren.

    How does this relate to physical activity? If you’re a physically active


    middle-aged or older adult, you have a lower risk of functional limitations
    than people who are inactive.

    Improve physical function and decrease the risk of falls. For older adults,
    multicomponent physical activity is important to improve physical function
    and decrease the risk of falls or injury from a fall. Multicomponent physical
    activity is physical activity that includes more than one type of physical
    activity, such as aerobic, muscle strengthening, and balance training.
    Multicomponent physical activity can be done at home or in a community
    setting as part of a structured program.
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    Increase Your Chances of Living Longer


    Science shows that physical activity can reduce your risk of dying early from
    leading causes of death, like heart disease and some cancers. This is
    remarkable in two ways:

    1. Only a few lifestyle choices have as large an impact on your health as


    physical activity. People who are physically active for about 150
    minutes a week have a 33% lower risk of all-cause mortality than those
    who are physically inactive.
    2. You don’t have to do high amounts of activity or vigorous-intensity
    activity to reduce your risk of premature death. Benefits start to
    accumulate with any amount of moderate- or vigorous-intensity
    physical activity.

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