Study On The Relationship Between Leisure Sports And Quality Of Life For The Elderly

An ageing population has increasingly become a major population problem caredabout by different countries in the world.One of the most prominent social phenomena thathuman society is facing in the21st century is the aging of the population. Our countryformally entered into aging countries in1999, Ages of the population in our country hastriggered a series of social phenomenon that the old people physical and mental needs, tothe society the issue brings so much tangible and intangible, pressure,which attracted theattention of Chinese government and the social from all walks of life. To meet theimmediate needs of old people and improve the quality of life in his late period, we musttake some effective actions and methods to achieve. In many ways and methods, Leisuresports with its own unique charm and advantage get the favor of the elderly population isabsolutely true.This study According to the survey data, using statistical methods tounderstand the status quo of the elderly group participation in leisure sports, exercisegroups are compared with those of the non exercise group of elderly sports life style andindividual life quality of the similarities and differences, and then analysis the relationshipbetween the leisure sports and the quality of life. Through this study, we can draw thefollowing main conclusions:1. In general, the elderly in rugao more attention to physical health, but most oldpeople ignored the more important of mental health problems; The leisure life of oldpeople overly depend on a variety of media, the lack of diversity, to promote the elderlyleisure sports is necessary and promising.2. All respondents, nearly ninety percent of the elderly said that he had attended theleisure exercise, nearly sixty percent of respondents exercise frequently per week in morethan three times and each time the length of not less than half an hour; Parks, squares andcommunity sports venues is the most important places of the elderly group do exercise; and most importantly, they do sports which are characterized by easiness, slowness andnocompetition.3. The factors affecting the elderly to participate in leisure sports, the top two is"subjective consciousness is not strong" and "not interested", suggesting that some oldpeople don’t like to participate in the leisure exercise is mainly caused by a lack of exerciseawareness and intention; the second factor is due to not perfect "hardware", such as"incomplete" field equipment and the lack of organization and guidance.4. Through the contrast analysis of two groups of elderly exercise (exercise group andthe group) survey data we can found that compared with the exercise group, exercise groupof old people in physical function dimension, the psychological function dimension andsocial dimension scores are at a higher level, two groups of the elderly population in eachfunction dimension differences can have greater statistical significance (P <0.01), which ismainly manifested in the physical health, mental health, social function of three aspects:(1)to participate in regular physical exercise of the elderly can effectively maintain the body’stissues and organs function, the enhance of ability to resist disease, achieve the goal ofimproving health and anti-aging;(2) to participate in regular physical exercise can improvethe mental health of old people, alleviate psychological pressure, eliminate the elderlyloneliness and loss, increase the happiness of the elderly.(3) to participate in regularphysical exercise of the elderly can effectively improve the elderly sports socialization, theincrease of the elderly life satisfaction, Effectively improve the quality of life of the elderly...