McKnight's July 19, 2023
Results of a recent trial show that hospital-to-home self-managed exercise and nutrition plans can help older adults prone to frailty — or those who are already frail — in the long run.
“Pre-frailty and frailty in older adults are associated with poor health outcomes and increased healthcare costs — and these worsen during hospitalization,” said Chad Han, PhD, a research fellow within the cancer survivorship program at Flinders University’s Caring Futures Institute in Australia. “We found that a well-accepted self-managed exercise and nutrition intervention program with good preliminary effectiveness can help to reduce frailty, as measured by the Edmonton Frail Scale.”
The team he is part of looked at pre-frail and frail older adults in southern Australia hospitals from September...
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