ReviewThe journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences2016
Assessing Daily Physical Activity in Older Adults: Unraveling the Complexity of Monitors, Measures, and Methods.
Review in The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 125 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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125 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 218 citations in OpenAlex.
- Sedentary behavior, cognition, and brain health in older adults: a systematic review.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2025Pooled it
- Technological applications to enhance independence in daily activities for older adults: a systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
- Environmental and behavioural interventions for reducing physical activity limitation and preventing falls in older people with visual impairment.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Current Evidence of Measurement Properties of Physical Activity Questionnaires for Older Adults: An Updated Systematic Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2020Pooled it
- Physical Activity Producing Low, but Not Medium or Higher, Vertical Impacts Is Inversely Related to BMI in Older Adults: Findings From a Multicohort Study.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2018Pooled it
- Intergenerational social mobility and leisure-time physical activity in adulthood: a systematic review.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2017Pooled it
- Physical activity coaching programme for people with Long COVID: a pilot randomised clinical trial.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- Effects of Hearing Intervention on Physical Activity Measured by Accelerometry: A Secondary Analysis of the ACHIEVE Study.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2025Trial
- Hearing Impairment and Physical Activity and Physical Functioning in Older Adults: Baseline Results From the ACHIEVE Trial.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2024Trial
- The association of vitamin D supplementation and serum vitamin D levels with physical activity in older adults: Results from a randomized trial.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2023Trial
- Changes in 24-h energy expenditure, substrate oxidation, and body composition following resistance exercise and a high protein diet via whey protein supplementation in healthy older men.Physiological reports · 2022Trial
- Contexts of sedentary time and physical activity among ageing workers and recent retirees: cross-sectional GPS and accelerometer study.BMJ open · 2021Trial
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- Enhanced motivational interviewing for reducing weight and increasing physical activity in adults with high cardiovascular risk: the MOVE IT three-arm RCT.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2019Trial
- Integrating Mobile-health, health coaching, and physical activity to reduce the burden of chronic low back pain trial (IMPACT): a pilot randomised controlled trial.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2019Trial
- Effects, costs and feasibility of the 'Stay Active at Home' Reablement training programme for home care professionals: study protocol of a cluster randomised controlled trial.BMC geriatrics · 2018Trial
- Effect and process evaluation of implementing standing desks in primary and secondary schools in Belgium: a cluster-randomised controlled trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2018Trial
- Device-Measured Physical Activity As a Predictor of Disability in Mobility-Limited Older Adults.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2017Trial
- Non-Vigorous Physical Activity Associated with Reduced Hospitalization Risk with or without Diabetes or Peripheral Artery Disease: Study of Latinos.Medicine and science in sports and exercise · 2026Article
- Compositional data analysis of 24hr activity and its associations with muscle strength and power: The Study of Muscle, Mobility and Aging.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2026Article
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Abstract
At the 67th Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting, a preconference workshop was convened to discuss the challenges of accurately assessing physical activity in older populations. The advent of wearable technology (eg, accelerometers) to monitor physical activity has created unprecedented opportunities to observe, quantify, and define physical activity in the real-world setting. These devices enable researchers to better understand the associations of physical activity with aging, and subsequent health outcomes. However, a consensus on proper methodological use of these devices in older populations has not been established. To date, much of the validation research regarding device type, placement, and data interpretation has been performed in younger, healthier populations, and translation of these methods to older populations remains problematic. A better understanding of these devices, their measurement properties, and the data generated is imperative to furthering our understanding of daily physical activity, its effects on the aging process, and vice versa. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the highlights of the preconference workshop, including properties of the different types of accelerometers, the methodological challenges of employing accelerometers in older study populations, a brief summary of ongoing aging-related research projects that utilize different types of accelerometers, and recommendations for future research directions.
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