Building an active aging coalition by Cody Sipe

Regular exercise is among the most important practices an older adult can engage in to improve health, increase physical functioning and stave off age-associated diseases. Yet overall physical activity levels for the 50-plus age group remain stagnant, despite increases in this demographic’s commercial club memberships. That’s because it takes more today than desire or willpower to adopt an active lifestyle. A complicated mix of barriers to physical activity has been tightly woven into the fabric of society over the years, creating the current inactivity crisis.