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The impact of leisure activities on older adults’ cognitive function, physical function, and mental health

Engagement in leisure activities has been claimed to be highly beneficial in the elderly. Practicing such activities is supposed to help older adults to preserve cognitive function, physical function, and mental health, and thus to contribute to successful aging. We used structural equation modeling...

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Autores principales: Sala, Giovanni, Jopp, Daniela, Gobet, Fernand, Ogawa, Madoka, Ishioka, Yoshiko, Masui, Yukie, Inagaki, Hiroki, Nakagawa, Takeshi, Yasumoto, Saori, Ishizaki, Tatsuro, Arai, Yasumichi, Ikebe, Kazunori, Kamide, Kei, Gondo, Yasuyuki
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6839878/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31703115
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225006
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author Sala, Giovanni
Jopp, Daniela
Gobet, Fernand
Ogawa, Madoka
Ishioka, Yoshiko
Masui, Yukie
Inagaki, Hiroki
Nakagawa, Takeshi
Yasumoto, Saori
Ishizaki, Tatsuro
Arai, Yasumichi
Ikebe, Kazunori
Kamide, Kei
Gondo, Yasuyuki
author_facet Sala, Giovanni
Jopp, Daniela
Gobet, Fernand
Ogawa, Madoka
Ishioka, Yoshiko
Masui, Yukie
Inagaki, Hiroki
Nakagawa, Takeshi
Yasumoto, Saori
Ishizaki, Tatsuro
Arai, Yasumichi
Ikebe, Kazunori
Kamide, Kei
Gondo, Yasuyuki
author_sort Sala, Giovanni
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description Engagement in leisure activities has been claimed to be highly beneficial in the elderly. Practicing such activities is supposed to help older adults to preserve cognitive function, physical function, and mental health, and thus to contribute to successful aging. We used structural equation modeling (SEM) to analyze the impact of leisure activities on these constructs in a large sample of Japanese older adults (N = 809; age range 72–74). The model exhibited an excellent fit (CFI = 1); engaging in leisure activities was positively associated with all the three successful aging indicators. These findings corroborate previous research carried out in Western countries and extend its validity to the population of Eastern older adults. Albeit correlational in nature, these results suggest that active engagement in leisure activities can help older adults to maintain cognitive, physical, and mental health. Future research will clarify whether there is a causal relationship between engagement in leisure activities and successful aging.
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spelling pubmed-68398782019-11-15 The impact of leisure activities on older adults’ cognitive function, physical function, and mental health Sala, Giovanni Jopp, Daniela Gobet, Fernand Ogawa, Madoka Ishioka, Yoshiko Masui, Yukie Inagaki, Hiroki Nakagawa, Takeshi Yasumoto, Saori Ishizaki, Tatsuro Arai, Yasumichi Ikebe, Kazunori Kamide, Kei Gondo, Yasuyuki PLoS One Research Article Engagement in leisure activities has been claimed to be highly beneficial in the elderly. Practicing such activities is supposed to help older adults to preserve cognitive function, physical function, and mental health, and thus to contribute to successful aging. We used structural equation modeling (SEM) to analyze the impact of leisure activities on these constructs in a large sample of Japanese older adults (N = 809; age range 72–74). The model exhibited an excellent fit (CFI = 1); engaging in leisure activities was positively associated with all the three successful aging indicators. These findings corroborate previous research carried out in Western countries and extend its validity to the population of Eastern older adults. Albeit correlational in nature, these results suggest that active engagement in leisure activities can help older adults to maintain cognitive, physical, and mental health. Future research will clarify whether there is a causal relationship between engagement in leisure activities and successful aging. Public Library of Science 2019-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6839878/ /pubmed/31703115 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225006 Text en © 2019 Sala et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Sala, Giovanni
Jopp, Daniela
Gobet, Fernand
Ogawa, Madoka
Ishioka, Yoshiko
Masui, Yukie
Inagaki, Hiroki
Nakagawa, Takeshi
Yasumoto, Saori
Ishizaki, Tatsuro
Arai, Yasumichi
Ikebe, Kazunori
Kamide, Kei
Gondo, Yasuyuki
The impact of leisure activities on older adults’ cognitive function, physical function, and mental health
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title_fullStr The impact of leisure activities on older adults’ cognitive function, physical function, and mental health
title_full_unstemmed The impact of leisure activities on older adults’ cognitive function, physical function, and mental health
title_short The impact of leisure activities on older adults’ cognitive function, physical function, and mental health
title_sort impact of leisure activities on older adults’ cognitive function, physical function, and mental health
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6839878/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31703115
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225006
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