Sedentary conditions during the lockdown and movement opportunities for the Italian elderly

Abstract

The active lifestyle benefits are recognized for all age groups. In the over 65 year’s old population, the advantages deriving from active lifestyles and from the increase in the levels of physical activity assume particular relevance especially for the aging effect contrast. The effects of aging, in fact, involve all systems and all systems and can be counteracted by adopting active lifestyles the measures to combat the contagion have been progressive, from 8 March to 11 March and have disciplined and conditioned numerous individual and collective behaviors. The subsequent closure of parks, gardens and equipped green areas prevented the use of these spaces for recreational motor activity or for walking. The purpose of this study is to describe the strategies adopted and the motor tasks identified in a particular period of limitation of individual and group travel for the over 65 years old population. The motor skills to be solicited must meet two criteria: they must be related to the daily life and senior independence skills; they must be identified among those most affected by a period of forced suspension of activities or forced sedentary lifestyle.