{"id":14822,"date":"2019-12-23T09:42:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T14:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14822"},"modified":"2019-12-23T09:42:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T14:42:52","slug":"the-benefits-of-and-barriers-to-exercising-and-practicing-mindfulness-in-older-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14822","title":{"rendered":"The benefits of and barriers to exercising and practicing mindfulness in older adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all have heard that both exercise and mindfulness practice have shown to have a myriad of health benefits for older adults, but less is known why more older adults don\u2019t engage in these practices. In a new study published in BMC Geriatrics, they report what they learned when they asked a group of older adults about the benefits of and barriers to exercising and practicing mindfulness. Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.biomedcentral.com\/bmcseriesblog\/2019\/12\/23\/aging-healthily-perspectives-from-the-older-adults-on-mindfulness-and-exercise\/\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/couple-biking.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12600\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/couple-biking-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/couple-biking-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/couple-biking-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/couple-biking.jpg 849w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all have heard that both exercise and mindfulness practice have shown to have a myriad of health benefits for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14823,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14822\/revisions\/14823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}