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BMC Geriatrics, 2020 Background Frailty exposes older people to an elevated risk of a range of negative outcomes. Emerging evidence that frailty can be effectively treated within community settings has stimulated calls for more proactive screening within primary care ...
Rachel C. Ambagtsheer +4 more
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Clinical Medicine, 2011 Frailty (Latin: fragilita; brittleness) is an important but incompletely understood clinical concept in geriatric medicine. There is no internationally agreed definition, but a consensus view is emerging[1][1] in which the phenotype of frailty is considered to develop as a consequence of a ...
Andrew, Clegg, John, Young
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Healthcare cost expenditures associated to frailty and sarcopenia
BMC Geriatrics, 2022 Objectives Frailty and sarcopenia have been related with adverse events, including hospitalization. However, its combined effect with hospitalization-related outcomes, including costs, has not been previously investigated.
Alejandro Álvarez-Bustos +5 more
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Journal of Aging Studies, 2022 Taking as a point of departure the role that the category of frailty increasingly plays in the classification, sorting and management of ageing populations in contemporary societies, this paper focuses on the crafting and validation of mouse models of frailty.
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Predictive Abilities of the Frailty Phenotype and the Swiss Frailty Network and Repository Frailty Index for Non-Home Discharge and Functional Decline in Hospitalized Geriatric Patients [PDF]
, 2022 BACKGROUND: Frailty is increasingly applied as a measure to predict clinical outcomes, but data on the predictive abilities of frailty measures for non-home discharge and functional decline in acutely hospitalized geriatric patients are scarce ...
Schilling, N. +5 more
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Development of Korean Frailty Index for Primary Care (KFI-PC) and Its Criterion Validity [PDF]
Annals of Geriatric Medicine and Research, 2020 Background The objective of this study was to develop and validate the Korean Frailty Index for Primary Care (KFI-PC) based on a comprehensive geriatric assessment.
Chang Won Won +3 more
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Cells, 2022 Here, we investigate changes in inflammation-related gene-expression in peripheral mononuclear blood cells (PBMC) by strength training. A total of 14 women aged ≥65 years were randomized into 3 months of either 3×/week intensive strength training (IST: 3×
Keliane Liberman +7 more
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The Lancet. Healthy Longevity, 2022 Summary: Background: The INSPIRE integrated care for older people (ICOPE)-CARE programme is a public health programme implementing the ICOPE health-care pathway in clinical practice.
Neda Tavassoli, PhD +14 more
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2019 This study aimed to evaluate the effect of the stretch-shortening cycle (SSC) on different portions of the force–velocity (F–V) relationship in older adults with and without chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and to assess its association with
Roberto Navarro-Cruz +16 more
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2021 BackgroundPower-oriented resistance training (PRT) is one of the most effective exercise programs to counteract neuromuscular and physical function age-related declines.
Carlos Rodriguez-Lopez +14 more
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