Research On The Present Situation And Development Strategy Of Physical Exercise For Aged People In Yantai

Along with our country’s highly developed level of economy and improvedliving standard, number of senior citizens occupied a large proportion in thepopulation. The unavoidable urge of aging tendency gradually becomes the fact whichwe have to deal with, and our country is already one of the countries with largestsenior population. Aging population here in our nation has got the feature like: largescale, aging faster than others, occurred during low level of social development,female senior citizens outgrow male ones. The drop of birth rate and mortality ratebecome the major reasons for the rapid growth of senior citizen’s proportion in totalpopulation. The sick expectancy period for aged people is longer than health one,which means senior citizens usually suffer from chronic disease which clearlylowered their living quality. With the occurrence of serious health problems, morepeople realized the importance of exercise. Sports for aged people showed itsnecessity, vitality and vigor.As an important part of social sports, sports for aged people is closely connectedwith the living standard of senior citizens and the stability of the nation. Thus, to keephealthy, extend senior citizen’s lifespan, enrich their culture knowledge, improve theirmental health, we should develop sports with slow rhythm. The high growth ofparticipation for such sports, simplicity of its program, the autonomy of its time, allthose factors enhanced its popularity.Though developed fast, there are elements which are holding such sports back.For instance, lacking of scientific knowledge for exercise and specialized place andprofessional guidance lead to inconvenience to the public and affected the enthusiasmof exercising which results in poor effect.This dissertation takes seaside city Yantai, located in the east part of Shandongprovince, as an example, and takes senior citizens above60in five major districts inYantai as investigation objectives to research into its exercise conditions. It adoptsseveral research method like documentation method, logical analysis method,statistical method and questionnaire to analyze elements which might affect seniorcitizen’s exercise and then present some suggestions for it. The conclusions are as follows:First, when taking part in exercise, educational level of senior citizens in Yantaiare quite average, the motive for exercise, however, has a large difference, it showededucational level has certain effect for senior citizens;Second, incomes for senior citizens in Yantai mainly focus on two source, theirown pension and alimony payment from their children;Third, senior citizens who choose to exercise in the early morning and eveningare far more than the ones who choose to exercise in the morning and afternoon;Forth, senior citizens in Yantai show high enthusiasm towards exercise and all ofthem have a good habit;Fifth, the choice of places for exercise of senior citizens is limited to publicfacilities like square or street, few choose to do it in commercial sports stadium;Sixth, senior citizens have a poor cognition for physical training.Suggestions are as follows:Firstly, senior citizen’s exercise culture should be built. Create concepts like“Exercise one time a day, happy for the rest of the time”, scientific way of exerciseshould be spread to the public to cultivate the habit of exercising to enjoy a healthylife;Secondly, general exercise conditions for senior citizens shall be improved. Tointensify the spreading of exercising facilities, government and corporations shouldwork together to attract investment from the public. Also, specialized stadium andfacilities should be built to ensure regular exercise;Thirdly, carry out exercise activities and sports events to encourage exercisingand add local features to attract senior people to attend. Emphasize on advertising anddeveloping of traditional sports activities and cultivate local sports teams according totheir advantages to improve their enthusiasm;Finally, enhance the diversification of public sports service. Government shallplay the leading role in providing senior citizens with good service and realize theinnovation for diversity modal for innovations. Then the consuming needs of seniorcitizens should be satisfied.