Interventions for reducing sedentary behaviour in community-dwelling older adults

CONCLUSIONS: It is not clear whether interventions to reduce sedentary behaviour are effective at reducing sedentary time in community-dwelling older adults. We are uncertain if these interventions have any impact on the physical or mental health of community-dwelling older adults. There were few studies, and the certainty of the evidence is very low to low, mainly due to inconsistency in findings and imprecision. Future studies should consider interventions aimed at modifying the environment, policy, and social and cultural norms. Future studies should also use device-based measures of sedentary time, recruit larger samples, and gather information about quality of life, cost-effectiveness, and adverse event data.PMID:34169503 | DOI:10.1002/14651858.CD012784.pub2

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - June 25, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Sebastien Chastin Paul A Gardiner Juliet A Harvey Calum F Leask Javier Jerez-Roig Dori Rosenberg Maureen C Ashe Jorunn L Helbostad Dawn A Skelton Source Type: research