Research suggests that grandparents who play regularly with grandkids stay active and healthy longer and — bonus points — live longer.
One minute we’re kicking around a soccer ball, the next we’re shooting miniature basketballs. Later, with me holding her hand, she’ll teeter-totter atop a foot-high stone wall along our driveway. Tomorrow, we’ll probably have a pillow fight and chase each other around the backyard. Meantime, I’m ready for a beer.
These findings are fortuitous. Grandparents today can expect to live longer than previous generations, and they may have more time available to play than parents. , each with at least one child, one parent and one grandparent, that identified as physically active. Researchers observed the individuals taking physical activity classes together. The grandparents came to recognize physical play as a key element in the role of looking after grandchildren. Such play built connections between generations and motivated grandparents all the more to stay active.
. Among residents of Belgium age 50 and older, an estimated 62 percent of men and 70 percent of women are grandparents, one of the highest rates in Europe. More than half of those grandparents look after grandchildren, averaging 13 hours of child care in a typical week.The two-year study — possibly the first of its kind and set to conclude next year — will compare three populations: caregiving grandparents, non-caregiving grandparents and non-grandparents.
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