Background: Maintenance of physical fitness is a cornerstone of geriatric preventive care. Senior fitness test (SFT) is a simple test for assessing physical fitness of the geriatric population. However, its reliability in the Indian setting has not been well established.
Objective: To determine the relative and absolute testretest reliability of SFT as a physical fitness tool of the geriatric population in the community.
Materials and Methods: A community-based prospective, nonexperimental study was carried out in an urban community of Guwahati, Assam, India. Thirty-one physically active, elderly individuals (aged ≥65 and
Key words: Community based, geriatric, physical fitness tests, senior fitness test, intra-rater variability, reliability
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