The Benefits of Gardening for Older Adults: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Wang, Donna; MacMillan, Thalia

doi:10.1080/01924788.2013.784942

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“…Researchers have examined ways to promote leisure for older adults at senior centers including using computers (Goodwin, 2013) and gardening (Wang & MacMillan, 2013). Leisure engagement at senior centers can promote mobility and fall prevention (Murphy et al, 2012) and social engagement (Meshram & O'Cass, 2013).…”

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Perceptions of Leisure by Older Adults Who Attend Senior Centers

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This article provides a description of salient themes that emerged from an investigation examining perceptions of leisure engagement by older adults who attend senior centers. A qualitative study initially using four focus groups was conducted with 34 older adults (ages 64-95, M = 78.24, SD = 8.24), including 27 women. As a follow-up, participants from the original focus groups and demographically similar older adults attended five focus groups that were used as member check events. Data were generated from the original four focus groups and five member check sessions totalling nine focus groups. Eighteen themes emerged to create the foundation for a framework based on selfdetermination theory that provides insight into the complex experiences described by senior center users. Although challenges associated with aging threaten the ability of older adults to meet their self-determination needs, they develop adaptation strategies to overcome these difficulties and achieve autonomy, competence, and relatedness.

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Perceptions of Leisure by Older Adults Who Attend Senior Centers

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“…Gardening has been reported to have therapeutic benefits such as improved health and quality of life, cognitive ability, and socialization (Infantino, 2004;Wang and Macmillan, 2013). Recent research on the physical aspect of gardening indicate that gardening tasks can be classified as low-to high-intensity physical activity for various age groups (Park et al, 2008a(Park et al, , 2011(Park et al, , 2012a(Park et al, , 2012b(Park et al, , 2013a.…”

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Electromyographic Analysis of Upper and Lower Limb Muscles during Gardening Tasks

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Kim³

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Movements of the upper and lower limb muscles during five common gardening tasks were analyzed by using electromyography (EMG). Twenty adults aged in their twenties (mean age, 24.8 ± 2.4 years) were recruited. On two separate occasions, subjects visited a garden plot to perform digging, raking, troweling, weeding, and hoeing; all tasks were performed three times with 20 s intervals for each trial. To measure muscle activation during the five gardening tasks, surface EMG was used. Bipolar surface EMG electrodes were attached to eight upper limb muscles (bilateral anterior deltoid, biceps brachialis, brachioradialis, and flexor carpi ulnaris) or eight lower limb muscles (bilateral vastus lateralis, vastus medialis, biceps femoris, and gastrocnemius) on both sides of the body, for a total of 16 muscles. During the five tasks, photographs were taken of movement phases using a digital video camera. The right flexor carpi ulnaris and brachioradialis showed higher activation than the other upper and lower limb muscles measured during the tasks. All 16 upper and lower limb muscles were actively used only during digging. According to movement analysis of each activity, digging was classified into four movement phases, whereas raking, troweling, weeding, and hoeing each were divided into three movement phases. In each activity, there were high-impact phases in terms of muscle activation; the flexor carpi ulnaris and brachioradialis were identified as major muscles in each impact phase. This analysis may be used to generate biomechanical profiles of gardening tasks for practitioners when designing efficient gardening interventions for physical health or rehabilitation.

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“…Pinterest, instructables.com, YouTube, and personal blogs all offer items and descriptions so that people can recreate them for themselves. For members of makerspaces, building something they have been introduced to online is still meaningful because the personal capital they situate into the item, similar to the mental engagement contained in gardening and of bringing a process from beginning to end to produce an outcome (Blair, 2009;Wang & MacMillan, 2013). In addition, they are able to alter the item to better suit their needs.…”

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Makerspaces and Contributions to Entrepreneurship

Holm

2015

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Entrepreneurship is essential to the growth and dynamism of countries and regions, forcing policy makers to search for levers to generate new firms within their municipalities. Without public attention, the maker movement, which refers to the democratization of access to and information on using tools, has risen from a fringe hobby to a prominent lifestyle with important implications for public concern. Modernly, tools have been available only to those working within firms and industry or those willing to pay large costs for their procurement. The maker movement presents multiple avenues to increase access to these tools, with the potential for impacts on the quantity and nature of entrepreneurship. My paper explores makerspaces and how they theoretically contribute to business generation and sustainment. As defined in the paper, the maker movement will influence entrepreneurship through three principle channels. The maker movement attracts more individuals into product design, and thus may launch more "accidental entrepreneurs" if they find that their user solutions have a market. Secondly, the maker movement generates dense but diverse networks, creating new ideas and innovative thinking. Lastly, the maker movement lowers the costs for prototyping, making early sales and acquiring outside funding more realistic.

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The Benefits of Gardening for Older Adults: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Cited by 151 publications

References 21 publications

Perceptions of Leisure by Older Adults Who Attend Senior Centers

Perceptions of Leisure by Older Adults Who Attend Senior Centers

Electromyographic Analysis of Upper and Lower Limb Muscles during Gardening Tasks

Makerspaces and Contributions to Entrepreneurship

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