The graph below shows how elderly people in the United States spent their free time between 1980 and 2010. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparison where relevant. Write at least 150 words

The line graph compares the five common things to do during leisure for American elders from the 1980s to the present.

Overall

, there was a significant increase of U.S. older adults engaging in hiking, reading, and browsing the internet for hobbies,

while

the number of elderly persons spending time on tv and theatre nowadays has declined compared to the past. Looking at the details, most senior adults preferred to spend their leisure watching television and going to the cinema in the 1980s, accounting for 60% and 50% respectively. An upward trend for watching television was witnessed from the 1980s to the 2000s, peaking at 70%.

On the contrary

, lesser older people choose to watch tv these days which has 65%. Going to the cinema was popular in the 1980s.

However

, it fell to 30% in the 1990s. Until the 2000s, it regained popularity at 40% and ended at 45% in the 2010s.

Conversely

, hiking was not favourable in the 1980s with only 20% of elders pursuing

this

hobby. Yet, it is now the most ideal thing for seniors, which is four times greater than it was in the 1980s. Searching on the internet was the least favoured activity in the 1980s, accounting for only 5%. It continued to surge from the 1980s to the 2000s. At present, internet browsing becomes the 4th most popular leisure with 50% of the elderly engaged in it. Reading followed a similar trend, starting at 30% in the 1980s and rising to 40% in the 1990s. It experienced a dramatic fall in the 2000s with only 20% of seniors spending time on it. Until recently, reading starts to become famous again ending at 65%.