ArticleJournal of behavioral medicine2014
The effect of widowhood on husbands' and wives' physical activity: the Cardiovascular Health Study.
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- Neighbourhood-level age-friendliness in urban environments: associations with functional independence and physical activity in older adults after a fall.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Loneliness predicts decreased physical activity in widowed but not married or unmarried individuals.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- A digital health intervention to stabilize the 24-hour rhythm of sleep, meals, and physical activity for reducing depression among older bereaved spouses: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2023Article
- Family influences on older adults' problem drinking: A representative nationwide study of China.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Effects of divorce and widowhood on subsequent health behaviours and outcomes in a sample of middle-aged and older Australian adults.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Physical Activity, Sitting Time, and Quality of Life among Breast and Gynaecology Cancer Survivors.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2021Article
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- Design and Rationale for a Technology-based Healthy Lifestyle Intervention in Older Adults Grieving the Loss of a Spouse.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2017Article
- Restorative activities among bereaved caregivers of nursing home patients.Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.)Article
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Abstract
This prospective study examined the effect of widowhood on physical activity by comparing widowed elders to health status-, age-, and sex-matched married controls. Participants included 396 married controls and 396 widows/widowers age 64-91 (M age = 72.7 years) who experienced the death of their spouse while participating in the Cardiovascular Health Study. Compared to married controls, widowed men, but not women, were more likely to increase their physical activity following the death of their spouse. However, this increased level of activity was not sustained and declines as time since spousal death passes. Moreover, during the year before spousal death, soon-to-be widowed men, but not women, increase their physical activity. Our results suggest that widowed men experience significant changes in physical activity and that the transition to widowhood contribute to these changes.
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