| With the further deepening of Chinese aging society, physical and mental healthof the elderly has become a problem of common concern to society now. After retiringfrom their busy work, the elderly get more leisure time. How to maintain the physicaland mental health of aged people has become a key problem of happy life of old age.Leisure sports as a fashionable sports form, can not only promote both physical andmental health of the elderly, but also enrich, create the joys of life and improvethemselves.This study selected717elderly people from some of Shanghai districtcommunities as the object of study. The methods including documentation,questionnaire survey, interview, the general statistical analysis are used to investigateand research, analyzing old people’s participation in leisure sports from differentaspects in some areas of Shanghai City, which can solve some of the puzzles of oldpeople in their participation in leisure sports and provide a specified basis forgovernment’s formulation of policy of promoting old people‘s participation in leisuresport. And the research results are the followings:(1) Among the leisure sports activities which the elderly in some areas ofShanghai City participate in, the most popular sports activities are walking, aerobics,square dance. The leisure sports activities mentioned above don’t require high inconsumption or much in site. They mainly choose some free sites such as parks,sports fields specifically provided by communities and open residential district space.The major form of old people’s Sports Association participation in sports is theelderly Aerobics Association in the majority. Compared with their participation insports alone, their participation with others reaches2/3and most of their companiesare friends and neighbors. After having leisure sports, the old people’s individualbenefits, physical benefits and spirit benefits are improved. And the greatest benefitis in a good mood. Then they will be full of vitality, live a full life and bring thereduction of the incidence of a disease.(2) The composed motivation factor of the elderly‘s engagement in leisure sportsis in different levels and types, reflecting the motivation modes of old people’sparticipation in leisure sports are health motivation, entertainment motivation,communication motivation. The above factors manifested in engagement in leisuresports have certain difference in age, gender, educational level and income, which hasnecessary influence on the elderly’s participation in leisure sports.(3) The amount which the elderly in the most areas of Shanghai City consume ismostly under￥200in the current stage. Sports Consumption shows pluralistcharacteristics. The first demand of sports consumption is still to improve health.Sports promotion tendency is mainly the material type sports consumption (sportsapparel, sports equipment, etc), then the information receiving sports consumptionsuch as health card. The several different forms of consummation complement oneanother, constituting the features of sports consumption of the elderly in some areas ofShanghai City. Both practical and material benefits are the major pursuits of sportsconsumption.(4) The characteristics of Shanghai City elderly people community sports culture and the elderly leisure sports is to give full play to the cultural, geographicalfeatures,to improve the life quality of old people, and especially to further promotethe late life of the aged from the perspective of leisure. |
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