Posted on 08/02/2019 9:56:37 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Frailty is not simply an adjective associated with old age, it is a medical condition all on its own. And it has significant medical, social and economic implications.
It is the first global study to estimate the likelihood of community-dwelling older adults developing frailty.
The study, led by Dr. Richard Ofori-Asenso and Professor Danny Liew from the Monash School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, looked at 46 studies of more than 120,000 people across 28 countries to reveal that, in over 60s, 4.3 per cent will develop frailty per year.
The results also showed that women were more likely than men to develop frailty.
As yet, there is, no 'gold standard' definition of frailty, but researchers and clinicians tend to regard it as a condition that meets three out of the following five criteria:
low physical activity weak grip strength low energy slow walking speed non-deliberate weight loss Frailty is associated with a lower quality of life and a higher risk of death, hospitalisation, and institutionalisation. The condition tends to occur among older adults, but even young people can be frail if they have one or more disabling chronic diseases.
However, the news is not all bad. Interventions such as muscle strength training and protein supplementation may help to prevent or delay the progression of frailty.
Furthermore, in a previous study, the authors found that frailty may even be reversed, suggesting that the condition is a dynamic one.
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
Please know we can improve our quality of life and what we are noticing is not what necessarily needs to happen or can at least be pushed off into the future.
Works for me...started weight lifting at age 74, at 76 my leg press was 330lbs and my bone density increased by an average of 4%
Not inevitable, no, but it takes either very good genes or a lot of hard work or both.
+1
Bkmk
elderly need to keep active, keep engaged with family and friends and community and maybe WORK longer or do volunteer work..
bbb
Most people I know who are getting older (even folks at the gym) are getting lazier and lazier. Even just being lazy in the gym leads to weaker and weaker muscles and bones and physical engine (heart and lungs).
If people want to curl up and die, that's their choice, I guess, but they need to recognize that it was not forced upon them...it was a choice.
In the gym, I don't lift heavy (so as to protect joints) but make up for the reduction in weight with many more reps.
I also do keto though I recognize that each person needs to find a diet that works for them. I have always found high carbs diets to be bad. Carbs turn to sugar when they hit the blood steam and go right to your butt or hips or belly.
I have preached this to my mom and husband for the last six years with no results. My husband is 81 and my Mom is 85. My husband was robust until he retired. He retired at 50. Now he has no muscle tone, weak legs, no balance, and no energy. He retired and found the recliner. My mom has never been active, has terribly weak legs, and has to use a walker to get around. I’ll be 65 in October and until I hurt my foot I was riding mountain bike trails and walking several miles daily. My foot is improving but even with the hurt foot I have kept going, except for riding the trails. The doctor only recently released me to start riding again. I tore the ligaments in my lower calf, ankle, and foot. I’m back on the stationary bike and I’m finally able to do higher intensity rides. BTW, I didn’t exactly fall on my own. One of my dogs ran up behind me at the dog park while I was bent over and knocked me down. My balance has always been great but there was no way to catch myself. Crap happens I guess.
I retired six years ago and didn’t sit down. I increased my activities instead. Until the injury I was extremely strong and fit and I’m getting back to that shape, slowly, but I’m getting there. I see people in their 80’s all of the time jogging, riding, etc. and exercise is the key to it all. Sitting around will kill you.
Hope your foot heals.
Me too. I’m ready to be normal again. The doctor said I’d wish I had broken it instead by the time the ligaments and tendons healed. LOL I didn’t believe it.
Seriously, weight lifting is one of the best physical activities there is for anyone, no matter the age (maybe not so good for newborns / toddlers).
I am very suspect of a study that has studied nothing but a bunch of studies. By doing so it questions not the data collection methods and assumptions that made the underlying studies, judges not the veracity of the study results and just takes all the data from all the studies and regurgitates the collective statistical results. It’s not very good science.
Muscles and skeletal injuries take a long time to heal. I can tell you that from personal experience.
I hope you have healed by now. They all tell me my age will make it slower. I’m still going to do it though.
Kudos to those who have proven this. I’ve been calling this “stamina” instead of frailty. I lose a lot during the winter when I am more sedentary and get it back in the spring and summer. Would love to spend at least a month this winter some place warm where I could get out and be more active. I am just not a gym person. The outdoors is what motivates me.
Excercise and some weight resistance. Your body is made to be active and to participate in “living.” I find I feel 1,000% better when I walk and actually move stuff.
Great advice right there. I’m in the battle of my life between those two worlds right now.
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