Exploring the meaning of aging & physically active leisure in the lives of older Canadian men - Directions for health promotion strategies
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A major concern in the context of aging populations is improving patterns of physical activity involvement. However, there is insufficient knowledge pertaining to the relationship between successful aging and physical activity in the lives of older Canadian adults targeted in health promotion strategies. Preliminary evidence suggests that older Canadian women have varying beliefs about the ways they can age successfully and the perceived role that physical activity plays in this process. Thus, the objectives of this research project were to (1) develop a critical and in-depth understanding of successful aging and physical activity in the lives of older Canadian men and, (2) inform the development of health promotion initiatives and sport policy aimed at older adults. Semistructured interviews were administered to 19 older Canadian men (75-90 years of age) who varied in their level of physical activity involvement (active, inactive, active with assistance). A thematic analysis was used to analyze the data through the use of standard coding and comparison procedures. Throughout the data collected, three overall themes emerged: meanings of aging, Physically Active Leisure – lived experiences, and directions for health promotion strategies. Overall, findings suggest that older Canadian men also have varying beliefs about the ways they can age successfully and the perceived role that physical activity plays in this process. For example, inactive participants (who are the logical targets of health promotion strategies) placed less importance on popularized biomedical elements of aging success and regular structured exercise than active participants. Researchers, practitioners, and policymakers should be aware of the varying perspectives older adults use to frame the intersection of successful aging and physical activity so that health programs and policy may be tailored accordingly.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.020 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".