Date of Award
2001
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to measure a person's propensity for falling in old age based on their lifetime mode of exercise. One hundred independently living older adults were separated into three groups, (1) lifetime start and stop exercisers, SAS, (i.e., basketball, racquet sport players), N = 27; (2) lifetime dynamic exercisers, DYN, (i.e., walkers, runners), N = 48; and (3) a control, C, (inactive), N = 25. Two trials of a timed "Up and Go" test (Podsiadlo & Richardson, 1991) were performed with results ranging from SAS, 5.01 sec +/- 1.16 sec; DYN, 7.04 sec +/- 1.92 sec; and C, 9.95 sec +/- 4.68 sec, mean +/- SD, indicating that lifetime start and stop activities significantly lowers a person's propensity for falling more than dynamic exercise or inactivity.
Extent
49 p.
Recommended Citation
von, Ammon Victoria Anne, "Lifetime exercise mode and the propensity of falling in older adults" (2001). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009. 243.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_5/243
Identifier
FADT12863
Comments
Adviser: Joseph A. O'Kroy.|Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2001.|Adviser: Joseph A. O'Kroy.