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The Comparison Of Volunteer Work And Regular Exercise For The Promotion Of Health Among The Aged, Wen-Ming Chang, Shih-Wei Chou, Wei-Hsien Hong, Wen-Chung Tsai, Jyh-Yuh Ke, M. K. Wong

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

The aging of Taiwan's population is creating a heavy burden on the government's public finances allocated for elderly health care. The purpose of this research is to compare health promotion behavior among the aged; these included hospital volunteers, those undertaking Tai Ji, those who swam or those who took no specific exercise.This study recruited a total of 136 subjects who lived in the community and the total included 59 males and 77 females. They could be divided into four groups: (1) the hospital volunteer group; (2) the Tai Ji group; (3) the swimming group and (4) the general elderly control …