"Senior Fitness Test Manual, Second Edition," offers the most
comprehensive and reliable test battery for assessing physical
fitness in adults ages 60 and older. The tests in this resource
assist health practitioners and fitness and rehabilitation
specialists in identifying weaknesses that cause mobility problems,
developing exercise programs that improve functional fitness,
preventing future mobility issues, and evaluating progress.
The Senior Fitness Test (SFT) is a simple, economical method of
assessing the physical attributes that older adults need in order
to perform daily activities. It consists of seven tests--covering
lower- and upper-body strength, aerobic endurance, lower- and
upper-body flexibility, agility, and balance--that can be conducted
with minimal space, equipment, and technical requirements, making
it easy to administer in most clinical and community settings or in
the home environment. The manual presents clear instructions on
preparing and administering the tests and interpreting and using
the test results. Readers will find guidelines on creating senior
fitness programs as well as exercises to recommend for improving
functional fitness scores.
The second edition of the "Senior Fitness Test Manual "offers
new tools to help facilitate the Senior Fitness Test. It includes
expanded information on ways to modify test protocols for older
adults with limiting conditions such as osteoporosis, obesity,
Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, stroke, fibromyalgia, heart
conditions, multiple sclerosis, hip and knee replacements, chronic
renal failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,
osteoarthritis, and blindness or low vision. Ready-to-use materials
such as reproducible forms, large-print instructions (complete with
photos) to post at testing stations, and large versions of
performance charts make the testing process more effective, and an
expanded chapter on improving test scores includes illustrated
instructions for exercises that can be prescribed to seniors to
help them improve their fitness.
In addition, the manual retains national normative data based on
age and sex for over 7,000 adults ages 60 to 94, but it now
includes criterion-referenced, clinically relevant fitness
standards. Based on the authors' continued groundbreaking research
on aging and functional fitness, these new criterion-referenced
standards allow practitioners and older adults to identify the test
scores at a specific age that are correlated with maintaining
adequate functional mobility into the 90s, providing a new and
deeper understanding of the test scores. This allows practitioners
and their clients to focus on maintaining or improving functional
fitness with customized goals meant to preserve and improve
individual abilities.
The second edition of the "Senior Fitness Test Manual "is now
packaged with a DVD that contains visual demonstrations of the
tests, including setup, execution, evaluation, and modification of
testing protocols to accommodate clients' limitations. Throughout
the text, DVD icons indicate when to view the DVD for live
demonstrations.
Maintaining strength, endurance, flexibility, agility, and
balance is critical to seniors whether their later-life interests
are playing golf, running marathons, or performing daily tasks such
as climbing stairs or getting out of a chair without assistance.
The "Senior Fitness Test Manual, Second Edition, " offers a
user-friendly means of evaluating physical capacity in the growing
population of older adults and helping them to maintain and improve
their functional fitness.
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