The phrase "active old" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe an elderly person who is still active, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "My grandmother is an active old woman who enjoys hiking and traveling."
Alternatives: "active elderly" or "energetic senior".
Both young and active old subjects carried out activities of daily living (walking, grocery shopping, gardening, etc).
On the other hand, SO adults had a significant reduction in PGC-1α and evidence of reduced mitochondrial biogenesis and mitochondrial COX activity in comparison with both the active old and young adults (Figures 2A-C).
In many ways, Somewhere Towards the End is an account of an ordinary, though unusually active, old woman.
In 1983, Frances Fitzgerald's "Interlude" chronicled the arrival of a different kind of immigrant group: affluent, active old people who were building the senior-citizens-only gated communities that have come to define some parts of Florida.
While women are particularly vulnerable to this kind of disgust and often internalise it, the sexually active old man is also the subject of jokes (pages of them on the web) and distaste, regarded as either an inadequate Viagra needer or a dirty old man.
Since Earth is geologically active, old rocks are always being melted down into magma and eventually reformed as new rocks through volcanic eruptions.
It is reasonable to assume that frail and less active older adults might show inverted activity patterns during double limb stance.
The intellectual activity by, for example, picture book reading is effective for preserving IADL among active older adults [ 12].
Dolavon was a tiny unconscious hamlet with three beautiful Welsh chapels, a disused railway station, and an active old-fashioned flourmill, there was no bar or cafe.
Although his paternal grandfather had been an active, old-fashioned Highland Liberal, Kennedy started his own political life at the age of 15 in the Labour party.
Although his paternal grandfather had been an active, old-fashioned Highland Liberal, Kennedy started his own political life in the Labour party, defecting to the SDP on its formation in 1981 partly because Labour seemed "less about releasing individual potential and more about levelling down".
