Physical Activity As We Age: Keeping The Baby Boomer Buff
on this podcast we Discuss with Edward R. Laskowski, M.D.Co-Director, Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine The physiologic changes that occur with normal aging and describe how exercise can mitigate these effects
People over 65 years old in U.S.
1900: 4%
2000: 12% (36 million)
2020: 20% (census estimate)
2030: 70 million (census estimate)
1 in 5 people in U.S.
2050: 1 in 5 people in world over 65 (1.53 billion)
Edward R. Laskowski, M.D.Co-Director, Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine
Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
laskowski.edward@mayo.edu @DrEdSportsMed