Why few older adults participate in complex motor skills: A qualitative study of older adults' perceptions of difficulty and challenge

BMC Public Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Kraft, Katarina P ^a   Steel, Kylie A ^a   Macmillan, Freya ^a   Olson, Rebecca ^b   Merom, Dafna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Complex motor skills; Focus groups; Gentile's taxonomy; Older adults; Physical activity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EXPOSURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROUNDED THEORY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; LIFESPAN; MOTONEURON; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PERCEPTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEA; SOCIAL ASPECT; SWIMMING; TAXONOMY; AGED; ATTITUDE; DANCING; DEMOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; SPORT; VERY ELDERLY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE; AUSTRALIA; DANCING; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR SKILLS; PERCEPTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; SPORTS;

EID: 84960501146     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-2501-z     Document Type: Article

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