Author(s): KANG, J., ZHU, L., Institution: ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY, Country: CHINA, Abstract-ID: 200

Introduction
Participation in sports appropriately has a positive effect on improving the physical and mental health of the elderly, which clarifying the non-competitive and intensity adaptability characteristics of the elderlys sports participation. For promotion of elderly physical activity in appropriated intensity, further research should pose attention on situation tracing and mechanism analysis of the elderlys sports participation intensity, especially in China. With Chinese economic soaring in decades, there was development gap between urban and rural, which make difference on elderly sports habits. It’s important to outline the portrait of the sports participation intensity of the elderly in China for different group.
Methods
Based on China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHRALS) data base, cluster analysis elderly sports participants into several groups according to sport participant intensity. Based on these, find out relationships between these groups and their demographic characteristics throughout multiple correspondence analysis.
Results
According to sport participant intensity, clustered elderly sports participants into three 3 groups: mild participants, mild and moderate participants, all-round serious participants. What’s more, the first two groups participate sports shortly each time with high frequency, and don’t prefer vigorous-intensity sports, strongly associated with high income, urban dwellers, live with spouse, several obstacles with body function; all-round serious group participate with vigorous-intensity, long time and high frequency, strongly associated with low income, without spouse, rural area, no obstacle with body function.
Discussion
Non-metropolitan area is the main location for elderly sports participants, which is contrary to the common sense that citizen prefer sports in China than villagers. In metropolitan, sports facilities don’t match with soaring population. In addition to the lack of consumption habits of Chinese aging people, caused by their youth daily life, elderly have less opportunity to participate sports. While in rural and fringe area, ger rid out of contradiction between people and land, villagers cost less, almost to zero, to exercise, which cultivate them to participate more frequently and more intensity. Those are the main part of all-round serious participants. Caused by conventional culture of filial piety, considering number of elderly people believe that living in elderly service institution means no offspring or unhappy family, which shamed themselves. So most aging people, living in institution lost their mobility, were divided into mild participants, which pose high demand of sports rehabilitation and prescription for elderly service institution.