(1.School of Management and Communication,Capital University of Physical Education and Sports,Beijing 100191,China;2.School of Leisure and Social Sports,Capital University of Physical Education and Sports,Beijing 100191,China;3.School of Physical Education,Hunan University of Technology,Zhuzhou 412008,China)
Abstract: The revision of elderly sports policies involving contents in the American Elderly Act (referred to as the Act for short) reveals the basic paradigm of American elder sports following evidence-based policies, embodies that the Act horizontally connects to the state government and federal elderly service network, and vertically plays the function of community “bridge”, and highlights the trend of elderly sports activity standard refinement. By viewing the current situation of elderly sports policies at the current stage in China on the contrary, the authors put forward the following proposals: exert academic research’s “adhesive” function in policy making, form a long-term effective “evidence chain” of the policies; from the social support perspective, perfect the elder sports policy system frame-work, boost various elder sports regulations and systems in a linked way; in terms of policy rules and regulations, establish elderly sports activity classification and standardization awareness, realize the gradual fusion of grassroots sports and medicine by relying on communities. Key words: elderly sports;sports policy;evidence-based policy;sports activity standard;social support;American Act Evolution
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