Benue State University, Makurdi

PHYSICAL EXERCISE FOR GRACEFUL AGING

Victor Terkimbi Ikpato, Tavershima Kparev, James Duenya, Timothy Terpase Akaahim, Andrew Aor Tyoakaa, Donald Igbalumun Ande and Mary Agajah

Graceful ageing as the process of optimizing opportunities to health, participation and security in order to enhance the quality of life as people age. Physical exercise is any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that require energy expenditure. The role which physical exercise plays in the prevention, control and treatment of diseases cannot be over emphasized. Physical exercise is associated with improved overall health in these people who survive to old age. It promotes endurance, strength, balance and mobility; it prevents the onset of several diseases associated with ageing, as well as shows the physical decline associated with ageing. This work presents a review of the role physical exercise plays in graceful ageing. This review is hinged on three theories of ageing which are; the activity theory of ageing, the disengagement theory of ageing, and the continuity theory of ageing. It also presents the relationship between physical exercises and the ageing process and the benefits of physical exercises to graceful ageing.

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