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History of Exercises for the Elderly

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Guide to Fitness After Fifty

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The history of exercise has been written many times from various perspectives but with little emphasis on exercise for older people. The present chapter may well be the first such attempt to depict the changing fads and fashions in exercise for the elderly over the centuries.

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  2. Lawrance Frankel Foundation, Charleston, West Virginia, USA

    Lawrence J. Frankel

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Kamenetz, H.L. (1977). History of Exercises for the Elderly. In: Harris, R., Frankel, L.J., Harris, S. (eds) Guide to Fitness After Fifty. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4139-0_2

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