The effect of functional tasks exercise and resistance exercise on health-related quality of life and physical activity. A randomised controlled trial.

Background: Data regarding the effect of exercise programmes on older adults' health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and habitual physical activity are inconsistent.

Objective: To determine whether a functional tasks exercise programme (enhances functional capacity) and a resistance exercise programme (increases muscle strength) have a different effect on the HRQOL and physical activity of community-dwelling older women.

Methods: Ninety-eight women were randomised to a functional tasks exercise programme (function group), a resistance exercise programme (resistance group), or normal activity group (control group).

Older and younger adults in pain management programs in the United States: differences and similarities.

Objectives: 1) To investigate health status of older (>or=60 years) and younger adults (<60 years) with chronic pain and to separately compare that with existing normative data; and 2) to examine more fully differences in health status between younger and older adults with chronic pain and explore their geographic variation across three multidisciplinary pain programs in the Pacific, Mountain, and New England regions of the United States.

Design: We performed a cross-sectional analysis.

Patients: Initial assessments of 6,147 patients dating from January 1998 to January 2003 were used.