Evidence on non-pharmacological interventions for preventing or reversing physical frailty in community-dwelling older adults aged over 50 years: overview of systematic reviews.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A large proportion of older adults are pre-frail. Interventions aimed at this group provide opportunity to reduce progression of physical frailty. The aim of this overview of reviews is to evaluate evidence for non-pharmacological interventions for the prevention/reversal of physical frailty in community-dwelling adults aged ≥ 50 years.

Methods

Medline, Embase, CINAHL, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Google Scholar and Social Science Citation Index were searched for non-pharmacological interventions that used a validated frailty measurement tool. Review quality was assessed using AMSTAR-2 and a Synthesis Without Meta-analysis (SWiM) approach was adopted.

Results

Twenty-three reviews were included, six of which were of high quality. This included 18

SUBMITTER: Money A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11912688 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature