




This very deficit perspective is changing. "Today, ageing is understood as a dynamic process, respectively, a certain span in the continuum of birth, life and death. This interpretation is based on the fact that every stage of life allows individual development and that later life represents a period with its own specific orientations and values." Hence, we need to focus on opportunities and activity options in later life, i.e. what gerontology refers to as "successful ageing": adapting to the facts and exploiting one's potentials for active living and personal development (Tokarski, 2004).






The following aspects need to be considered when discussing sport of the elderly:
- changes in the conceptual model of ageing have led to ageing adopting a completely new image,
- daily routine, leisure and sport activities of elderly persons need to be included when analysing sport of the elderly and when understanding "life-long learning" as "life-long physical and mental exercising",
- addressing encouragement and barriers,
- promoting the ideal of continued physical exercise involvement through later life.





- Tokarski, W. (2004) Sport of the Elderly. Kinesiology, 36, 98-103
- photographs by Dean Bradshaw ("Real Life Superheroes") via
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