The Aging of America DVD

Implications for Exercise Programming

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Produced in cooperation with the ACSM Walter Thompson, Ph.D., FACSM Georgia State University 2007 US Price: $49.95 DVD | Length: 44 minutes 827008136797 The Aging of America: Implications for Exercise Programming presents a review of the normal, yet irreversible, biological changes that occur in the various systems of the body as individual’s age. This DVD examines the impact of those changes on an individual’s level of functional capacity and discusses the implications of these changes for exercise programming. Among the topics covered: target population description (general characteristics and mobility/locomotion capacity)—limited (ambulatory and wheelchair elderly), frail elderly, and bed patients, osteological and cardiorespiratory changes in aging, cardiovascular, respiration, muscle and joints, bone, and body composition and stature, and changes in functional capacity with age and implications for exercise programming.

About the Author

Walt Thompson, Ph.D., FACSM, FAACVPR, is the Director, Center for Sports Medicine, Science & Technology at Georgia State University (Atlanta, Georgia). He is also a full professor in both the Department of Kinesiology and Health and the Department of Nutrition at Georgia State University. Dr. Thompson is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, a Fellow of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education and Recreation Research Consortium, a Fellow of the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation, and a Fellow of the Southern Association for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation. Currently, he serves as the Chairman of the American College of Sports Medicine Committee on Certification and Education.