Individualized home-based exercise and nutrition interventions improve frailty in older adults: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Frail older adults are predisposed to multiple comorbidities and adverse events. Recent interventional studies have shown that frailty can be improved and managed. In this study, effective individualized home-based exercise and nutrition interventions were developed for reducing frailty in older adults.

Methods

This study was a four-arm, single-blind, randomized controlled trial conducted between October 2015 and June 2017 at Miaoli General Hospital in Taiwan. Overall, 319 pre-frail or frail older adults were randomly assigned into one of the four study groups (control, exercise, nutrition, and exercise plus nutrition [combination]) and followed up during a 3-month intervention period and 3-month self-maintenance period. Improvement in frailty scores was the prima

SUBMITTER: Hsieh TJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6889427 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature