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Author Tulle, Emmanuelle, author

Title Physical activity and sport in later life : critical perspectives / Emmanuelle Tulle and Cassandra Phoenix
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 189 pages)
Series Global culture and sport series
Global culture and sport.
Contents Notes on contributors -- 1. Introduction: Rethinking physical activity and sport in later life / Emmanuelle Tulle and Cassandra Phoenix -- 2. Physical activity and sedentary behaviour: A vital politics of old age? / Emmanuelle Tulle -- 3. Physical activity and narratives of successful ageing / Elizabeth C.J. Pike -- 4. Fitness and consumerism in later life / Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard -- 5. Type 2 diabetes and commitment of seniors to adapted physical activity within the French system of therapeutic education / Nathalie Barth and Claire Perrin -- 6. Pathways to masters sport: sharing stories from sport 'continuers', 'rekindlers' and 'late bloomers' / Rylee A. Dionigi -- 7. Keeping it in the family: The generational transmission of physical activity / Victoria J. Palmer -- 8. Later life physical activity in residential care settings / Mary Ann Kluge -- 9. Physical activity and dementia: Tai chi as narrative care / Gary Kenyon -- 10. The multidimensionality of pleasure in later life physical activity / Cassandra Phoenix and Noreen Orr -- 11. The contingencies of exercise science in a globalizing world: ageing Chinese Canadians and their play and pleasure in exercise / Shannon Jette and Patricia Vertinsky -- 12. Fell running in later life: irresponsible intoxication or existential capital? / Sarah Nettleton -- 13. Ageing and embodied masculinities in sport and physical activity: from flesh to theory and back again / Andrew C. Sparkes -- 14. Ageing women still play games: (auto)ethnographic research in a fitness intervention programme / Gertrud Pfister and VerenaLenneis -- 15. Physical activity among older adults with visual impairment: considerations for ageing well with sight loss / Meridith Griffin -- 16. Local environments and activity in later life: wellbeing experiences in green and blue spaces / Sarah L. Bell and Benedict W. Wheeler -- Index
Summary This volume addresses key issues such as the cultural and discursive context in which physical activity is discussed; the process of becoming physically active; the role of care settings in enabling physical activity; pleasure; gender; and place and space
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Based on print version record
Subject Physical fitness for older people.
Sports for older people.
Exercise for older people.
Aging -- Physiological aspects
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Healthy Living.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
Aging -- Physiological aspects
Exercise for older people
Physical fitness for older people
Sports for older people
Sports pour personnes âgées.
Exercices physiques pour personnes âgées.
Vieillissement -- Aspect physiologique.
Äldre.
Sport.
Form Electronic book
Author Phoenix, Cassandra, author
ISBN 1137429321
9781137429322