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How Exercise Can Control Health Seeking Behaviour Among Older Adults by projectregards7: 8:57am On May 06, 2021
One of the best remedies for any health related issue could be exercise. Most of the people that exercise regularly tend to be fit and have high level of immunity. Undergraduate research projects have shown that there is a correlation between exercise and health seeking behaviour among the older adults.
EXERCISE
It is often assumed that exercise involves only movement represented by activities such as walking, running, jumping, and swimming. Indeed, by their imprecise titles, respected texts either wittingly or unwittingly promulgate this assumption. Exercise can also involve movement assisted by machines or other devices such as those found in cycling, wheelchair racing, kayaking, rowing, skiing, and skating. During these activities, energy is expended up to and beyond 120 kJ min71 (2 kW), equivalent to an oxygen uptake of 6 litres min71 , compared with resting rates of approximately 5 kJ min71 (83 W), equivalent to an oxygen uptake of 0.25 litres min. However, there are activities that also require substantial expenditures of energy but in which little or no movement occurs. The Crucifix and other examples of quasi-static balance and suspension in gymnastics are illustrations. In competition, movement is actually deprecated and marks are awarded for stillness. In both codes of rugby, it is possible for 16 or 12 players to exert maximum or near-maximum effort such as in a scrum, yet no movement occurs. The same can be seen in tug-of war. Other tasks such as rifle and pistol shooting and archery also illustrate activities in which lack of movement is a principal aim of the participants
NEED OF EXERCISE
Everybody knows that the need of exercise in our daily lives, but we may not know why or what exercise can do for us. Exercise means, the daily practice of doing some physical work. Exercise is the key to good health and fresh mind. The daily practice of some physical work does not mean to take stress on body, but it is actually the stress relieving activity. A good health is obligatory for doing a good work. A famous quote is there is awesome evidence that people who lead active lifestyles are less likely to suffer from illness and more likely to live longer. Exercise not only makes you physically fitter but it also improves your mental health and general sense of well-being. Getting fit is not just about running on a treadmill for hours in your local gym, it can be a dance class or a new hobby like fencing or mountain biking. It could be a group or team activity like football or a karate class. Whatever form of exercise you choose, you’ll practically certainly meet new people and may make new friendships. These recommendations can be achieved through 30-60 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise (five times a week) or 20-60 minutes of vigorous-intensity exercise (three times a week) or a combination of both types. One continuous session combined with multiple shorter sessions (of at least 10 minutes) is also acceptable
BENEFITS OF DAILY EXERCISE
Each one of us has a physical body made of muscles, blood, bones and various other living tissue. When any of these are injured or not working properly then we get ill. Nobody likes to be ill. So, it is important that we keep our body healthy and fit. Exercising the body is one way of keeping it healthy. If we do not exercise then our muscles become weaker and we are less able to do things properly. Also the bones can become weaker and thus break easily. It is performed for various reasons, including increasing growth and development, preventing aging, strengthening muscles and the cardiovascular system, honing athletic skills, weight loss or maintenance, and merely enjoyment. Frequent and regular physical exercise boosts the immune system and helps prevent "diseases of affluence" such as cardiovascular, type 2 diabetes, and obesity. It may also help prevent stress and depression, increase quality of sleep and act as a non-pharmaceutical sleep aid to treat diseases such as insomnia, help promote or maintain positive self-esteem, improve mental health, maintain steady digestion and treat constipation and gas, regulate fertility health, and augment an individual's sex appeal or body image, which has been found to be linked with higher levels of self-esteem. Childhood obesity is a growing global concern, and physical exercise may help decrease some of the effects of childhood and adult obesity. Some care providers call exercise the "miracle" or "wonder" drug—alluding to the wide variety of benefits that it can provide for many individuals
HEALTH SEEKING BEHAVIOUR
Health seeking behaviour of the aged is determined by their attitude and that the elderly sometimes focuses exclusively on him or herself and try to use power, pressure, influence or control in ways destructive to their relationship with their caregivers. To some extent, the elderly person‘s behaviour can be self-centred and not noticing other people feelings and not realizing when they are upset or when something you do upsets them. Occasionally, the elderly develop abusive behaviour.
In this regard, they complain bitterly about unavoidable situations, finding faults with almost everything, blaming others for problems caused by themselves, refusing advice that would ease care tasks because they think that they know better and their ideas should be carried, prolonging conversations through repetition and demanding help beyond the caregiver‘s capacity. This invariably may induce stress. When seeking health care, the aged are liable to face situation such as mistreatment which has been identified in facilities for continuing care (such as nursing homes, residential care, hospitals and day care facilities) in almost every country where such institutions exist. Various people may be responsible for the abuse: a paid member of the staff, another resident, a voluntary visitor, or relatives or friends. An abusive or neglectful relationship between the older person and their caregiver at home may not necessarily end once the older person has entered institutional care; the abuse may sometimes continue in a new setting. A distinction must be made between individual acts of abuse or neglect in institutional settings and institutionalized abuse where the prevailing regime of the institution itself is abusive or negligent. In practice, though, it is often difficult to say whether the reasons for abuse or neglect found in an institutional setting have been caused by individual acts or through institutional failings.
The spectrum of abuse and neglect within institutions spans a considerable range, and may be related to any of the following: The provision of care for example, resistance to changes in geriatric medicine, erosion of individuality in the care, inadequate nutrition and deficient nursing care (such as lack of attention to pressure sores). Problems with staffing for example, work related stress and staff burnout, poor physical working conditions, insufficient training and Psychological problems among staff. Difficulties in staff–resident interactions for example, poor communication, aggressiveness on the part of residents and cultural differences, Environment for example, a lack of basic privacy, dilapidated facilities, the use of restraints, inadequate sensory stimulation, and a proneness to accidents within the institution.
EXERCISE AND HEALTH SEEKING BEHAVIOUR
Daily exercise is very important for the older adults; there are so many health benefits of exercising daily. The older adults at some point develops health related problems such as diabetes, high blood pressure, increase in body fat as a result of poor body system regulation thereby developing health-seeking behaviour. Daily exercise although the exercise should be mild has a way of improving the functioning of the body system. Health related issues such as sugar level, body fat, and blood pressure tend to be control with mild exercise.
CONCLUSION
To sum up, health seeking behavior described as the action or inaction of individual which responding to the stimuli to achieve optimum well-ness. It has clearly described the differences of this concept with another concept that has a close definition such as help seeking behavior, and health information seeking behavior. It will help nurse and other health care profession to identify cause of this concept and the consequences of it. Similarly this will help health profession learn how people engage with health care systems in their respective socio-cultural, economic and demographic circumstances. Moreover, future research can use the attributes of this concepts analysis as the validation of their research instruments
Re: How Exercise Can Control Health Seeking Behaviour Among Older Adults by Daveambition(m): 9:41am On May 06, 2021
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