TBE STUDY ON Ti IE HEALTH-PROMOTION PRACTICE FOR AGES PEOPLE WITH LIFE-STYLE

我们做了3年与生活方式相关疾病上升的老年人健康促进实践。这项活动的目的是确保从社会上的工业工作中退休的老年人过上高质量的健康生活。水上运动班全年每月举办2 - 3次，每班参加人数在25 - 40人左右，每节课运动1小时。年龄较大的参与者在2 - 4名研究人员陪同下进行轻度水操，由专业教练指导。年龄最小的65岁，年龄最大的92岁，持续上课1年。几乎所有的人都表示他们第一次参加水上运动课程的印象是“非常愉快的经历”，“背痛的治疗效果”，“减轻了内囊或肩部僵硬的膝痛”，“增加了日常生活中的良好节奏”。另一方面，每年测量3次“良好步行指数”，每年测量1次骨密度、“生活质量指数”和“自我效能指数”。良好的步行者指数，被认为是保护老年人跌倒的非常有用的指数，在开始练习三年后显着增加。在这几年里，即使是女性，骨密度也没有明显增加，也没有明显减少。生活质量指数和自我效能指数均保持在与开始时相同的水平。总之，持续的水上运动对老年人的身心健康是非常有益的。

We have made aged people's health-promotion practice with life-style related disease rising indoor swimming pool for 3 years. The purpose of this activity was to make sure the aged people, who had retired from their industrial work in the society, the healthy life of high quality. The water exercise class was held twice or thrice a month all year round, the number of the participants of one class was about 25 to 40 and the exercise was made for 1 hour per 1 class. The mild water exercises for the aged participants with 2 to 4 attendants of the investigators of this project were conducted by the professional instructor. The youngest participant was 65 years old and the oldest one was 92 years old who continued to attend the class for 1 year. Almost all of them stated their impression of the first experience for water exercise class as " very joyful experience", "the therapeutic effect of backache", the decrease for the pain of the genu of internal capsule or the stiff shoulder" and "the increase of good rhythm in daily life".On the other hand, the measurements were made thrice a year about "good walker's index" and once a year about the bone density, the "QOL index" and "Self efficacy index". The good walker's index, which is regarded as the very useful index for the protection of falling down for the aged, significantly increased three years after the beginning of the practice. The bone density was not increased significantly but not decreased significantly even for ladies within these years. The QOL index and the self efficacy index were both kept in the same level as that in the beginning.In conclusion, the continuous activity using water exercise is very useful for the maintenance of physical and mental health on aged people.