The line graph presents the proportion of free time the elderly in the US spend on various activities from 1980 to the present.
Overall, going on foot has shown the largest increase throughout the given period and became the most popular activity for elderly people. Surfing the Internet also shows a significant rise together with the amount of time spent on reading, surpassing the Theatre.
Hiking started the period with 20% and witnessed a steady annual rise to reach its peak at 80% of the time in the 2010s. By contrast, watching television accounted for 60 percent of free time in the 1980s and hovered at around the same level (65%) until 2010.
Spending time on the Internet has shown a gradual rise from 5% in 1980s to around 15% in 2000 before witnessing a dramatic increase up to 50% of the spare time at the end of the given period. Reading has also demonstrated a climb from 30% in 1980s to 60% in 2010s. Both of these activities started to take up a larger proportion of free time at the end of the period than going to theater, which has experienced a decline from 50% in the 1980s to approximately 45% in the 2010s.