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T1 A prospective observational study of frailty in geriatric revitalization aimed at community-dwelling elderly
A1 Morales Sanchez, Almudena
A1 Calvo Arenillas, José Ignacio
A1 Gutiérrez Palmero, María José
A1 Martín Conty, José Luis
A1 Polonio López, Begoña
A1 Dzul López, Luis Alonso
A1 Mordillo Mateos, Laura
A1 Bernal Jiménez, Juan José
A1 Conty Serrano, Rosa
A1 Torres Falguera, Francisca
A1 Martínez Cano, Alfonso
A1 Durántez Fernández, Carlos
K1 Community-dwelling
K1 Older adults
K1 Multicomponent exercise program
K1 Physical frailty
K1 Pre-frailty
K1 3201.07 Geriatría
K1 32 Ciencias Médicas
K1 3212 Salud Publica
AB (1) Background: The increasing life expectancy brings an increase in geriatric syndromes, specifically frailty. The literature shows that exercise is a key to preventing, or even reversing, frailty in community-dwelling populations. The main objective is to demonstrate how an intervention based on multicomponent exercise produces an improvement in frailty and pre-frailty in a community-dwelling population. (2) Methods: a prospective observational study of a multicomponent exercise program for geriatric revitalization with people aged over 65 holding Barthel Index scores equal to, or beyond, 90. The program was developed over 30 weeks, three times a week, in sessions lasting 45–50 min each. Frailty levels were registered by the Short Physical Performance Battery, FRAIL Questionnaire Screening Tool, and Timed “Up & Go” at the beginning of the program, 30 weeks later (at the end of the program), and following 13 weeks without training; (3) Results: 360 participants completed the program; a greater risk of frailty was found before the program started among older women living in urban areas, with a more elevated fat percentage, more baseline pathologies, and wider baseline medication use. Furthermore, heterogeneous results were observed both in training periods and in periods without physical activity. However, they are consistent over time and show improvement after training. They show a good correlation between TUG and SPPB; (4) Conclusions: A thirty-week multicomponent exercise program improves frailty and pre-frailty status in a community-dwelling population with no functional decline. Nevertheless, a lack of homogeneity is evident among the various tools used for measuring frailty over training periods and inactivity periods.
PB MDPI
SN 2077-0383
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/67450
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/67450
LA eng
NO Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2024, Vol. 13, Nº. 9, 2514
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 24-nov-2024