Developing Strategies for the Development of Elder’s Sports in Iran in the Horizon of 20 Years

Population growth, especially in developing countries and increasing life expectancy and life expectancy, has caused the phenomenon of aging societies and one of the issues that affect the lives of the elderly is exercise, which playsan important rolein the physicaland mentalhealth of the elderly has it.

The purposeof this study is to identify factors affecting the elder’s sports in Iran and classificationthem in terms of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and environmental threats, as well as providing practical strategiesfor thedevelopmentof elder’s sportsin Iran.

The present research is applied in terms of purpose and in terms of how to collect information of mixed type(qualitative and quantitative).The statistical population of this study includes experts related to elder’s sports in Iran.Among these people, 20 people were selected as a research sample in the qualitative section.The sampling method is non-random. Data collection toolsarequestionnaires and interviews with experts.For statistical analysis, Delphi technique andSWOTanalysis matrix were used.

The findings show that with the formation of theSWOTmatrix,40practical strategies for the development of elder’s sports in Iran were presented.Finally, amongthe strategiespresented,10strategies were selected as thebest strategies by experts.

According to the results thelocation of the elder’s sports in Iran in the internal andexternal square matrix located in defensivebox.