Assessment of Physical Fitness and Functional Mobility among Elderly Women in Kerala

Abstract

The objective of the study was to assess the physical fitness and functional mobility of elderly women in Idukki. The study was restricted to 200 elderly women above the age group of 60 years from Idukki district. The selected variables for the study were leg strength, functional mobility, dynamic balance, and cardiovascular endurance. In order to assess the leg strength (sit to stand test), functional mobility (timed up and go test) dynamic balance (functional reach test) and for cardiovascular endurance (six minutes walk test) was conducted. In order to assess the physical fitness and functional mobility of the subjects, descriptive statistics mean, standard deviation, frequency distribution and percentile were computed.