essentialist discourse infers unchanging characteristics to ethnic group members,
exaggerating differences and underestimating similarities between groups .
this study has found that there are shared characteristics and cultural practices across these ethnic groups.
there were also similarities in the cultural practices across these adherence given by UK SA and white british participants,
which serve to limit essentialisation of SA older adults.
However,
there were some specific issues for SA participants.
Acknowledging internal differences that can exist within ethnic groups is important.
if these internal differences go unrecognised it may discourage uptake and subsequent adherence of PA programmes forolder adults.
for example,
for SA participants,
barriers to PA were reported to be related to lack of fluency in English,
which impeded/restricted participation and attendance in PA programmes.