The phrase "active elderly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe older adults who are physically or socially engaged and maintain an active lifestyle.
Example: "Many communities offer programs specifically designed for the active elderly to encourage fitness and social interaction."
Alternatives: "active seniors" or "engaged older adults".
In addition, there seems to be a difference in fall location and activity up to the moment of the fall between the younger and more active elderly, who still go outdoors, and the more frail older people who tend to stay indoors.
Shinzo Abe, the newly appointed prime minister, has promised to create new day care centers, but it is unclear how much he can accomplish given Japan's growing and politically active elderly population.
"Everybody's reading the handwriting on the wall," said Dr. Jay Lemery, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, which started one of the nation's first fellowships a few years ago in trauma treatment for the active elderly.
Total hip arthroplasty is currently an accepted treatment option for the active elderly patient with a displaced femoral neck fracture [20].
Additionally, these physically active elderly adults displayed greater MSE values at larger time scales at the Fz electrode in both attention and memory conditions.
We observed that physically active elderly adults had better accuracy on both visuo-spatial attention and working memory conditions relative to their sedentary counterparts.
A different analysis is that used for the socially-active elderly (with participation in groups of elderly people or engaged in activities outside the nuclear family) in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre [ 14].
The study confirmed the effect of aging on numerous structural and functional characteristics in both active and less-active elderly women.
No outdoor activities for active children, elderly and active adults or those with respiratory problems.
The adult subjects were more active than elderly, but not involved in any specific training program.
Through low resistance to respiratory infections, allergy history, and active smoking, elderly patients represent a high-risk population group for poorly controlled asthma.
