Team Building in an Exercise Class for the Elderly

Activities, Adaptation and Aging

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 35-47

  Watson, Jocelyn D ^a   Spink, Kevin S ^a   Martin Ginis, Kathleen A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Elderly; Exercise; Group cohesion; Team building

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014962691     PISSN: 01924788     EISSN: 15444368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J016v28n03_03     Document Type: Article

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