Physical Activity for Older Aboriginal Adults: A Call for Cultural Safety

Auteurs-es

  • Lauren A. Brooks-Cleator University of Ottawa
  • Audrey R. Giles University of Ottawa

Mots-clés :

Cultural safety, Older adults, Aboriginal peoples

Résumé

The Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP) released new PA guidelines for Canadians in 2011, including those for older adults, which communicate the ways in which good health can best be achieved. In this paper, we argue that if we are to have PA guidelines for older adults in Canada, they need to be culturally safe for those who experience disproportionate levels of poor health: Aboriginal older adults. Within this paper, we examine the existing guidelines to determine if they are culturally safe. We show that despite qualitative evidence of the need for culturally safe PA opportunities for Aboriginal peoples, the Canadian PA Guidelines for Older Adults (CSEP, 2012) are not culturally safe for Aboriginal peoples. To address this shortcoming, we use health communication strategies to suggest ways in which the Guide, and in turn other PA resources, could be developed to be culturally safe.

Bibliographies de l'auteur-e

Lauren A. Brooks-Cleator, University of Ottawa

Ph.D. student in the School of Human Kinetics

Audrey R. Giles, University of Ottawa

Associate Professor in the School of Human Kinetics

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Publié-e

2016-02-03

Numéro

Vol. 7 No. 3 (2016): Revue phénEPS-PHEnex Journal

Rubrique

Feature Articles / Articles de fond

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