Exercise Deficiency Diseases of Ageing: The Primacy of Exercise and Muscle Strengthening as First-Line Therapeutic Agents to Combat Frailty

In the management of older patients, frailty has emerged as one of the most relevant clinical syndromes that will exponentially increase with population ageing. The United Nations project that between 2015 and 2030, the number of people in the world older than 60  years will grow by 56%, from 901 million to 1.4 billion, with the fastest increases among those older than 80 years.1 This has major implications for clinical management and health care delivery, and also contributes to increased health care spending in the United States, United Kingdom, and glob ally.

Source: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association - August 25, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Norman R. Lazarus, Mikel Izquierdo, Irene J. Higginson, Stephen D.R. Harridge Tags: Editorial Source Type: research