Morales-Sánchez, Almudena and Calvo Arenillas, José Ignacio and Gutiérrez Palmero, María José and Martín-Conty, José L. and Polonio-López, Begoña and Dzul Lopez, Luis Alonso and Mordillo-Mateos, Laura and Bernal-Jiménez, Juan José and Conty-Serrano, Rosa and Torres-Falguera, Francisca and Martínez Cano, Alfonso and Durantez-Fernández, Carlos UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, luis.dzul@unini.edu.mx, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED (2024) A Prospective Observational Study of Frailty in Geriatric Revitalization Aimed at Community-Dwelling Elderly. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 13 (9). p. 2514. ISSN 2077-0383
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Abstract
(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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | community dwelling; multicomponent exercise program; older adults; physical frailty; pre-frailty |
| Subjects: | Subjects > Physical Education and Sport |
| Divisions: | Europe University of Atlantic > Research > Scientific Production Ibero-american International University > Research > Scientific Production |
| Depositing User: | Sr Bibliotecario |
| Date Deposited: | 22 May 2024 12:15 |
| Last Modified: | 22 May 2024 12:15 |
| URI: | http://repositorio.funiber.org/id/eprint/12103 |
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