A best-selling text, Understanding Motor Development: Infants, Children, Adolescents,
Adults provides students and professionals with both an explanatory and a descriptive basis …

Life Span Motor Development, Seventh Edition With HKPropel Access, is a leading text for
helping students examine and understand how interactions of the developing and maturing …

This work aims to provide an inventory of the risk factors and consequences of falling in the
elderly, namely fractures, and to identify strategies to prevent falls and minimise their effects …

The second edition of FallProof! continues to be the only text to address the multiple
dimensions that contribute to balance and mobility. By exploring the reasons underlying …

A atividade física pode ser efetivar tanto na atenção primária quanto secundária e terciária
da saúde. Os objetivos do artigo são analisar a associação entre atividade física e …

Physical Activity Instruction of Older Adults, Second Edition, is the most comprehensive text
available for current and future fitness professionals who want to design and implement …

Objectives: To examine the effects of age on functional fitness after six weeks of detraining.
Methods: Elderly subjects, aged 60–86 years, completed a nine week multicomponent …

O processo natural do envelhecimento envolve inúmeras transformações biológicas
inerentes aos organismos e que ocorrem de maneira gradativa e premida por necessidades …

O processo de envelhecimento envolve alterações em todo o organismo humano, com
declínio em quase todas as funções. A prática regular de exercício físico é uma estratégia …

Background: Physical fitness is gaining in importance in all population groups, including
elderly, but data are still scarce. The aim of this study was to report gender and age specific …