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Interventions are almost always designed to overcome the background factors that have negatively affected the movement of seniors. A well-educated, lonely, incapacitated and, for various reasons, less mobile people are involved in effective interventions and practices. Therefore, background information on, for example, the exercise of seniors and their structural reasons must be challenged in new interventions and obstacles to movement must be overcome.

Interventions cannot affect the level of education, social class or place of residence of seniors, even if they explain the low level of mobility. Instead, the experiences provided by the activity, the opportunities for social interaction, the quality of the activity and its suitability can be influenced in many different ways. Awakening and supporting seniors’ own activity, as well as the agency that is built through it, are extremely important factors in any project that increases physical activity (Jyrkämä. 2008).