title: [Competent aging with sports].
abstract: This contribution deals with the significance of sports for competence in old people. It presents evidence for positive effects of sporting activities on the solution of self-development tasks, like maintaining social participation in old age, pursuing one's own interests, or on keeping active in general, as well as on indices of life-satisfaction like the feeling of well-being, emotional adjustment, or a sense of self-control. In its second part, the paper develops a series of recommendations concerning the motivation of aging persons to sports and the realization of sporting activities for them.
authors.affiliation: Universität Bielefeld, Abteilung Sportwissenschaft.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Brehm
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D010809:Physical Fitness; D013177:Sports
vernacular_title: Kompetent altern mit Sport.