Primary care interventions to address physical frailty among community-dwelling adults aged 60 years or older: A meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION:The best interventions to address frailty among older adults have not yet been fully defined, and the diversity of interventions and outcome measures makes this process challenging. Consequently, there is a lack of guidance for clinicians and researchers regarding which interventions are most likely to help older persons remain robust and independent. This paper uses meta-analysis to assess effectiveness of primary care interventions for physical frailty among community-dwelling adults aged 60+ and provides an up-to-date synthesis of literature in this area. METHODS:PubMed, CINAHL, Cochrane Register of Controlled Trials, and PEDro databases were searched, and RCTs, controlled pilot studies, or trials with similar study designs addressing frailty in the primary care setting amo

SUBMITTER: Macdonald SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7006935 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature