… Normal aging may increase pain facilitation and reduce capacity to inhibit pain inputs.
Frequent movement is key to the prevention and treatment of pain. Aerobic, strength, flexibility, …

… amount of activity needed to promote optimal health and function … patterns of habitual physical
activity in aging and the relationship … in spite of increases in their leisure-time activity (29) . …

… of increased physical activity and … Increasing physical activity improves central and peripheral
cardiovascular functioning among older adults. Increases in aerobic-type physical activity …

… only increases in muscle strength and size, but increased gait … activity levels increased
significantly, whereas the activity of a … The increase in overall levels of physical activity has been a …

In 2016, more than 3000 new scientific articles were devoted to “healthy aging” and more
than 500 were focused on “successful aging.” Trying to digest this prolific literature highlights …

… debilitating, increasing the risk of falls and impairing the ability to perform routine activities of
… hasten the loss of lean body mass and further increase risk of functional impairment (6, 7). …

… increased investigation of the aging phenomenon and the perturbations that affect healthy
aging. … In this book we have attempted to define what healthy aging truly is and the effects that …

… cancer, can be reduced by increasing physical activity. The benefits that exercise can provide
… and physical activity may contribute to the maintenance of a healthy aging brain. Recently, …

… is paralleled by increased connectivity within functional networks. In this review, we outline
the network perspective on healthy brain aging and discuss recent developments in this field. …

… Social Activity and change was opposite in sign to what would we expected (ie, we found
greatest increases in depression among those with highest initial levels of social activity), and …