A fast-graying, elderly population lives with different comorbidities of the ageing process. Better late than never, Yoga needs to be practiced by the elderly for its well-proven, positive, qualitative results to improved control of the self and also as a preventive or risk reduction technique for holistic health. Importantly, the master key of Yoga considers good health to include physical, emotional, environmental, social, and spiritual factors at a macro level. It is also an elixir that works well as a therapeutic tool for psychosocial wellbeing and is recommended for addressing health challenges and as a risk reduction tool to many ailments. Yoga is also a preventive health measure for onset of any age-related disease or illness. Practice of Yoga is considered to work well toward active, healthy ageing allowing for the elderly to beget many cognitive, psychological, and social benefits in their general wellbeing. Yoga, now part of integrative medicine, is used as complementary therapy and a clinical, therapeutic tool for rehabilitation of persons, including elderly, with physical, mental, psychological, and emotional disorders. Not just a practice of controlled breathing, Asanas (body positions) and meditation, Yoga acts as a stress-buster to calm the mind. It also fortifies and builds new capacity to increase immunity, discipline oneself to be equipoised, and maintain a healthy lifestyle and offers physical and mental benefits to include psycho-social therapeutic support to those with dementia, their families, and caregivers too. Holistic in approach, generally considered to be effective for mental, physical, social, emotional, environmental, and spiritual wellbeing, Yoga practitioners are positively gifted with holistic health and the elderly, active successful ageing.

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Benefits of Yoga on Psychosocial Wellbeing in the Elderly

  • Vidya Shenoy

摘要

A fast-graying, elderly population lives with different comorbidities of the ageing process. Better late than never, Yoga needs to be practiced by the elderly for its well-proven, positive, qualitative results to improved control of the self and also as a preventive or risk reduction technique for holistic health. Importantly, the master key of Yoga considers good health to include physical, emotional, environmental, social, and spiritual factors at a macro level. It is also an elixir that works well as a therapeutic tool for psychosocial wellbeing and is recommended for addressing health challenges and as a risk reduction tool to many ailments. Yoga is also a preventive health measure for onset of any age-related disease or illness. Practice of Yoga is considered to work well toward active, healthy ageing allowing for the elderly to beget many cognitive, psychological, and social benefits in their general wellbeing. Yoga, now part of integrative medicine, is used as complementary therapy and a clinical, therapeutic tool for rehabilitation of persons, including elderly, with physical, mental, psychological, and emotional disorders. Not just a practice of controlled breathing, Asanas (body positions) and meditation, Yoga acts as a stress-buster to calm the mind. It also fortifies and builds new capacity to increase immunity, discipline oneself to be equipoised, and maintain a healthy lifestyle and offers physical and mental benefits to include psycho-social therapeutic support to those with dementia, their families, and caregivers too. Holistic in approach, generally considered to be effective for mental, physical, social, emotional, environmental, and spiritual wellbeing, Yoga practitioners are positively gifted with holistic health and the elderly, active successful ageing.