activity into daily routines. This guide, which is intended for local government managers and other local government leaders, offers strategies for designing communities that support “active aging—active living for older adults. In addition to encouraging physical activity, promoting active aging creates opportunities for older adults to remain active participants in civic life. Active aging ca...

Active aging is one of the terms in the semantic network of aging well, together with others such as successful, productive, competent aging. All allude to the new paradigm in gerontology, whereby aging is considered from a positive perspective. Most authors in the field agree active aging is a multidimensional concept, embracing health, physical and cognitive fitness, positive affect and contr...

objectives: the main purpose of this study was to determine the interactive role of physical activity and personality traits inpsychosocial development of elders. methods & materials: this research was a casual comparative with 300 elders (150 active and 150 non-actives) with 60-85 years old from tehran selected as statistical sample on available bases. all subjects completed psychosocial devel...