There is an important need to assess whether benefits identified in the short term are maintained in the longer term, and if any booster interventions are needed to achieve sustainability.
Longitudinal studies with longer follow-up are needed to examine whether the increase in exercise and leisure-time physical activity is maintained in the long term or is only a short-term phenomenon after the transition to retirement.
There is limited evidence that improved global outcomes are maintained in the long term and clear evidence to support long-term maintenance of cognitive benefits.
There is some evidence that improved global outcomes are maintained in the long term and clear evidence to support the long-term maintenance of cognitive benefits.
Furthermore, are any short term gains in physical activity with exercise referral schemes maintained in the long term?
Evidence of a greater short-term increase in relevant knowledge in the intervention group was not maintained in the longer term.
It remains to be seen, however, if the improvements seen in short-term trials, such as the current one, can persist and be maintained in the longer term.
Whereas the presence of a short-term intervention effect is encouraging, further investigation to determine whether the effect is maintained in the longer term is also warranted.
Installing it is expensive; then employees must be trained to use it, and the system must be maintained in the long term.
A reason to anticipate that such mechanisms of governance will be maintained in the long term in Germany.
