“More of the Same is Not Enough”: New Directions in Ageing and Physical Activity Seminar Series
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Introduction to ESRC Seminar Series on Ageing and Physical Activity - "Physical Activity as a 'Career': A Life Course Perspective" by Dr Noreen Orr. http://seminars.ecehh.org
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“More of the Same is Not Enough”: New Directions in Ageing and Physical Activity Seminar Series
- 1. “More of the Same is Not Enough”: New Directions in Ageing and Physical Activity Seminar Series Noreen Orr 4th December 2014 (N.Orr@exeter.ac.uk)
- 2. • Introducing the Seminar Series • Introducing Moving Stories research • Introducing Today’s Seminar
- 3. More of the Same is Not Enough
- 4. More of the Same is Not Enough Aim: • To bring together academics, policy makers, health and social care practitioners, physical activity and sports providers, and those working within the voluntary and statutory sectors, to create a research network to advance knowledge in the social, cultural and physical environments that can enable or deter physical activity engagement in older age and shape how it is experienced
- 5. Timeliness • Projected rise of people age 60+ in the next 25 years (ONS, 2013) • Decreases in activity levels as people grow older (Stamatakis et al, 2007) • Highly inactive population despite 60 years of research developing and communicating guidelines and implementing interventions (Das & Horton, 2012)
- 7. ‘Rethinking our approach’ • But how do we encourage a behaviour that should be part of everyday life? For too long the focus has been on advising individuals to take an active approach to life. There has been far too little consideration of the social and physical environments that enable such activity to be taken (Das & Horton, 2012: 1)
- 8. ‘Rethinking our approach’ • Physical activity is not a medical or pathological predicament but more a cultural challenge: to create a lifestyle inclusive of activity (Das & Horton, 2012: 1)
- 9. • Introducing the Seminar Series • Introducing Moving Stories research • Introducing Today’s Seminar
- 10. Moving Stories Research • Dr Cassandra Phoenix, Senior Lecturer in Qualitative Health Research
- 12. Active Childhood “I did no physical activity until recently…I was the child that stood in the school playground looking at other people doing activity…And, it’s only in the last five years that I thought, ‘well now I’m the age I am, I could probably take up a bit of sport and I wouldn’t look like a loser’. And that has been absolutely fascinating because that was joining the local bowling club and I thought, ‘well I’ll just go’. (Lesley, Lawn Bowls, Age 64)
- 13. Transitions And I cycled when I was young, so I had a bicycle when I retired, and…I retired on 30th November, I said, ‘tomorrow morning at 9 o’clock I am going to play tennis’…And it just so happened 1st December was absolutely blue, clear blue sky and I played tennis out of doors with my wife…and I’ve been playing tennis ever since.” (Duncan, Tennis, Age 68)
- 14. I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes…I then started a very strict regime of getting up every morning and going out and doing a brisk walk for about 30 to 40 minutes. (Rupert, Walking, Age 68) Events
- 16. The Mindset “It really is the case that it makes you feel better. I mean, I do have to force myself to get out on the bike sometimes. Quite often I’ll say ‘oh, it’s not very nice weather and it’s blowing a bit’, you know. But then I think ‘there is no real excuse, you’ve got to’. So I get changed and I always come back feeling so much better and so glad I did it.” (Gilbert, Cycling, Age 71)
- 17. The Mindset I do feel I’ve actually got to work at it in in terms of fitness. I think it would be very easy to be lazy and not do much…It’s very easy to slip into bad habits with diet. I find it’s very easy to anyway. So it does require a bit of self- discipline. (Doug, Swimming, Age 60)
- 18. • Introducing the Seminar Series • Introducing Moving Stories research • Introducing Today’s Seminar
- 19. Physical Activity as Career: A Life-course Perspective • Prof Gertrude Pfister • Dave Terrace • Prof Barbara Humberstone • Rupert Manley • Sarah Jarvis & Ann Bennett
- 20. Housekeeping • Switch off/silence mobile phones • No files drills expected • Facilities
Editor's Notes
- Welcome to the first seminar in this Seminar Series, “More of the Same is Not Enough”: New Directions in Ageing and Physical Activity.
- This seminar series is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and is collaborative, involving academics from the Universities of Exeter, Glasgow Caledonian, Leeds Beckett, Brunel, Birmingham and Loughborough. Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council Eight seminars in total, over a period of three years, 2014-2018.
- In a 2012 Lancet publication dedicated to examining physical activity and health, the issue of physical inactivity was described as ‘pandemic’!
- In the Moving Stories research undertaken at the University of Exeter Medical School adults – over the age of 60 - who have created a lifestyle inclusive of physical activity were studied and we believe that we can learn ‘what works’ from a group of older adults who engage in regular physical activity.
- The Moving Stories project was led by Dr Cassie Phoenix and funded by the ESRC. Aim of Moving Stories was to understand the impact of physical activity on perceptions and experiences of (self-) ageing. For over two years we collected qualitative data using a range of methods - life-story interviews, focus groups, photography and film.
- We used life-story interviews with 51 older adults who ranged in age from 60 to 92 and engaged in a range of activities – sea swimming, dance, golf, cycling, walking, bowls and badminton. The life-history interview helped us understand physical activity over the life-course – role of physical activity in childhood, experiences in mid-life, and the transitions or events at the later stage of the life-course that influenced participation in physical activity.
- Nearly all of the participants recalled an active childhood- ‘walking everywhere’, ‘riding our bikes all day’ – even if they disliked PE at school. It is expected that a high level of physical activity in youth is important in building a future physically active lifestyle and thus a long-lasting habit.
- Transitions such as retirement, and events such as bereavement and diagnosis of illness at later stages of the life course can also influence participation.
- Changes in physical activity participation related to specific events over the life-course help us better understand the stability or instability of habitual physical activity in the lives of older adults.
- Physically active older adults do not always find it easy to sustain their exercise habit. All of the participants were well aware of the ease of slipping into ‘bad’ habits and explained how at times, they also eased off their exercise regime. They referred to the importance of the ‘mindset’ – that is the intrinsic ability that they believed that ensured that some degree of physical activity was undertaken even on days when they did not feel like it. The mindset used to motivate participation on these ‘difficult days’ involved combining a sense of determination with their pre-existing knowledge about physical activity. This knowledge involved medical knowledge – i.e. doing physical activity on a regular basis was good for their health and it also involved experiential knowledge, i.e. they would feel better once they had done their exercise.
- Physical activity participation changes over the life course, and individuals add and delete activities, but sometimes, changes may be gradual or changes in physical activity may occur during periods of transition when individual’s roles and relationships are altered.
- Today’s seminar on physical activity in later life examines how taking part in physical activity might take the form of career. Thinking of physical activity as a career can potentially promote and enable physically active lifestyles and how physical activity and exercise can become a habitual and routine part of older people’s everyday practices.
- We have five presentations today: two before lunch at 12.15 – with Prof Gertrud Pfister and Dave Terrace, and then after lunch we have three – Prof Barbara Humberstone, Rupert Manley, Sarah Jarvis & Ann Bennett. Our speakers today are: GP – University of Copenhagen Dave Terrace – AgeUK Prof Barbara Humberstone – Bucks New University Rupert Manley – GP at Stennack Surgery in Cornwall Sarah Jarvis – ReActive and Ann Bennett – both from Cornwall