The report link below is produced by Age & Opportunity with support from Amárach Research and a Stakeholder group from the Sport, Health and Older Persons sectors.
The insightful report represents the views of older people on how Covid-19 has impacted on their involvement in sport and physical activity and provides a set of recommendations for dealing with potential future health crises, based on the learnings from Covid-19.
Other key findings and recommendations from the report include:
The context for this work goes beyond access to physical activity. Many older people have found the lockdown periods severely limiting and traumatising, and we know from research that being active can have a profound influence on quality of life, with positive impacts on physical, psychological and social well-being.
In line with public health guidelines Age & Opportunity will be working with older people, their groups and relevant stakeholders to address these findings and further the recommendations in this report. One of our first actions to this end is the nationwide expansion of our FitLine telephone service supported by Sport Ireland and the Healthy Ireland Keep Well Campaign.
Many older people have found the lockdown periods severely limiting & traumatising, and we know from research that being active can have a profound influence on quality of life, with positive impacts on physical, psychological and social well-being.