Sports practice for all and its relationship to life satisfaction for elderly people in Dakahlia governorate

Abstract

In this study, the researcher aims to identify the relationship between the sport for all practice and life satisfaction of the elderly in Dakahlia Governorate. The researcher used the descriptive approach. The questionnaire of sport for all practice was prepared by the researcher; the scale of life satisfaction was prepared by Magdy El-Desouki as tools for collecting data. The study has been applied on a sample of (358) of the elderly for the primary experiment and (50) for the pilot experiment. The most important results were the interest of most of the elderly in the practice of sport for all activities, which are dominated by team sports performance, keenness of the elderly to achieve the practice goals (physical, social and psychological) in order to develop physical, mental and psychological health which achieves psychological balance.