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• Digital games and active aging: The psychological, cognitive, and social aspects of online digital leisure in elderly years

  Szilvia Hujber-Mitru

  Katalin Balázs

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  146

  The study examines the digital leisure activities of older adults, especially video game use, in the context of active aging and digital well-being. These activities have complex psychological, social and health effects that are crucial in the modern interpretation of active aging. The aim of the study is to provide a comprehensive overview of digital game use among elderly individuals with a specific focus on motivations, factors facilitating and hindering participation, their potential positive effects and risks, and the effects of digital games on cognitive, emotional and social functioning. Online games and digital game spaces, including e-sports and virtual reality-based applications, offer new opportunities for seniors in the areas of recreation, learning and social integration. The study highlights that digital games with adequate support and user-friendly design can be important tools for active and quality ageing.

• Gerontofitness - the beneficial effects of regular exercise on the physical and mental health of aging people

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  A. Csinády

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  718

  Exercise plays a vital role in lifelong development, so it is very important in the elderly. Those who exercise regularly enjoy a better cardiovascular status, their motor capabilities remain more satisfactory, they complain less of depression, sleep disorders, and stay more confident and more independent even in older ages.
  Recreational sports have expanded the sport to the everyday people, for whom the goal is to provide the fitness needed for everyday life. The new concept gerontofitness, emerged recently, which deals with the sporting activities of the elderly and the beneficial effects of those.
  Nowadays a new goal is to create programs that encourage older people to exercise regularly. At the same time, there are many obstacles to these, because the physical activity of the elderly is partly influenced by cultural factors, stereotypes and attitudes, mostly in the direction of inactivity.