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Changing Mindset to Change Lifestyle in Older Adults
November 19, 2007 at 8:09 PM
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The study led by Dr. Catherine Sarkisian, assistant professor of geriatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, showed that older adults who participated in a pilot test for a program aimed at changing the mindset became more physically active, increasing their walking levels by about 24 percent, an average increase of 2.5 miles per week.
"We can teach older adults to get rid of those old beliefs that becoming sedentary is just a normal part of growing older," Sarkisian said."We can teach them that they can and should remain physically active at all ages, she added.
For the study, researchers recruited 46 sedentary adults age 65 and older from three senior centres. They used a technique known as "attribution retraining" to effect a change among study participants about what it means to age and what to expect out of it.
"The exciting part is that, to our knowledge, this attribution retraining component hasn't been tested in a physical activity intervention. It's been very successful in educational interventions, Sarkisian said.
The older adults attended four weekly, hour-long group sessions led by a trained health educator who applied an attribution-retraining curriculum. They were taught to reject the notion that becoming older meant becoming sedentary and to accept that they could continue engaging in physical activity well into old age.
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