Yoga as a Community-Based Recreational Therapy Intervention for Older Adults: A Pilot Study.
The purpose of this multi-method pilot study was to explore the efficacy of a yoga intervention on the leisure constraints and functional fitness of community-dwelling older adults. Seven community-dwelling older adults engaged in 16, 60-minute sessions of hatha yoga conducted twice a week for eight...
| Publicado en: | Therapeutic Recreation Journal Vol. 53; no. 4; pp. 368 - 381 |
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Sagamore Publishing
2019
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