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.
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I’m similar. I recently started eating properly. Go to diner for breakfast. So last week I got out of car and walked around the block before going in diner
This morning added two blocks Your man maybe informedand not motivated. I saw my new grandson and great granddaughter two weeks ago and am motivated
Best wishes. Diabetic heart patient in Oceanside
“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% “
I’m 69 and started last year (I was bad during the holidays). There’s a LOT of older people over at the gym. I also still work and walk generally 12-15 thousand steps a day.
This is why I try to work out every day. My longest stretch was 72 days of doing the treadmill every day and weight work 3 days a week. That was earlier this year. I’m still trying to duplicate and hopefully, to surpass that number.
Motivated? He’s been in that chair 14 years now. If you try to talk to him about anything he gets mad. So I just leave him alone and at home with the dog. That’s where he wants to be so..... I’m just not ready to quit living yet.
You’re doing great. “You can only do what you can do.” Simple, but true.
My wife is very active. Im10 years sedentary in front of computer with tv viewable. As long as he lives there is hope.
Everything is inter connected
What you breath, think, eat, sleep, play at, work at, dance, sing, interact with etc....
I am blessed with good genes and Mrs Spokeshave is from the Greek island of Ikaria...the island of longevity where people forget to die.
Story and videos are here: google (ikaria blue zone) and see the many videos on the subject.
Cook book of village recipes and photos from the island is this one: ISBN 978-1-62336-295-9 by Diane Kochilas (non related)
Thanks. Yep, that’s my philosophy. I just keep on doing the best I can.
Keep at it and you will win. When I retired at 58 I was 162 pounds and out of shape from working 6-7 days a week 12 hours a day on swing shift. It took 10 months of a lot of hard exercise and eating healthy food but I was down to 120 pounds and I have kept my weight below 125 for six years now. You can do it! I also took a certificate class at the local college in Food, Nutrition, and Health. That helped me a lot.
My husband sits and eats chips and cookies all day but doesn’t gain a ton of weight because he has a disease called Achalasia that prevents the sphincter in his esophagus from opening properly. His food doesn’t go to his stomach properly. He goes to the hospital about once a year for Botox shots that relax the sphincter so that he can eat better. He also has horrible sleep Apnea but won’t go to the doctor for that. I expect to find him dead in the bed every morning. His blood pressure is high and so is his sugar. He didn’t have all of these problems until he retired and took to the recliner. Some of these health issues he has wouldn’t be as bad if he was active.
Cycling is one of the best exercises for your heart and muscles and it’s low impact on bad joints. I look forward to being able to walk properly again but I think it’s going to take joining a gym and using machines that make me use the foot like I need to. Exercise of any kind is also good for your “head”. It helps keep you sane.
Nicely put.
I’m going to use it for motivation.
I’m 54 and my blood pressure is creeping up, so it’s either drop 25 to 30 pounds or get on blood pressure medication.
I don’t want to be on any medication. So far, all I ever need is the occasional Tylenol.
When I go on “my” weight loss program, my 3 “can’t have” are soda(coke classic), alcohol of any kind, and fried foods.
Everything else in moderation. Hopefully, I won’t touch another coke. But, once I drop the weight, I will occasionally have an alcoholic drink or fried foods.
I had gotten real lazy and was just doing leisure walks... and that wasn’t cutting it anymore.
Now I’m back to power walking. I can do 3 miles in 36 minutes. I think it’s just as good as running and much easier on the knees and boobs.
I also do stepping... which is great for the legs and seems to keep the cottage cheese away.
I’m about to see a personal trainer and let her design two dumbbell routines for me.... mostly for the arms, bust, and abs.
She’s only $30 a pop, so I’ll go about 4 times... until I get the routines down.
I want each routine to feature different exercises, but work the same thing. I’ll do one routine one week(twice a wk) and the other routine the next wk(twice a wk).
For extra cash, I sometimes help a friend at an assisted living facility. One woman there is 95 and most of the times she doesn’t even need a walker.
When she comes breezing into the dining room for breakfast, one of the staff likes to say.... There’s Marilyn Monroe.
SHE INSPIRES ME.
Goats are smart...they know what plants to eat and what plants are poisonous
Goats love to eat pine needles and the twiggy stems
and gnaw on pine bark.
Avoid Statins..according to the FDA causes "bad decision making in elders"...so says Spokeshave who thought he had Altzheimers 15 years ago...forgot to take the Statins and recovered.
You and me both. :)
I have a nice $400 Trek bike that I need to get the cobwebs off.
I think it’s been 2 years since I’ve been on it.
I could alternate between power walking and biking.
Biking definitely works different muscles than walking.
Last year It was found I had a 16mm diameter gall stone
last week a CAT scan showed my gall stone is now 13mm in diameter
So I lost about a cubic cm of stone in 7 months
took Thorne company "Bio-Gest" pills with meals...one and a half 180 count bottles of pills in 7 months.
And medicinal quality castor oil drops got rid of a cateract 2 years ago...good enough to pass the DMV eye sight test.
Let us know when you see Mulehead and Pedo Joe at the Gym.
Interesting. My eye doctor told me I have the makings of a cataract.
I go to the eye doctor once a year... only because I need my contacts.
I can’t stand to wear glasses, and that includes sunglasses(to my detriment, I know).
I’ll have to read up on cataracts and castor oil.
Other than the Achalasia......are you sure we’re not married to the same person?? Lol
Good luck with your recovery. Keep going! And leave the bump on the log in his chair. That’s what I do. He seems content there as long as I leave him alone. Lol
I have tried all of the statins and couldn’t take them because of severe muscle cramps. Mine is borderline high but not dangerous so I control it with eating right and exercise. I get checked every six months and my visit six months prior to the one in June showed it had climbed quite a bit since I couldn’t ride due to the foot. I started eating an avocado a day and started back on my stationary bike even though it made my foot hurt and it dropped significantly. I also take a collagen powder supplement and that seems to help. My dog’s Vet recommended that. She’s a competitive cyclist in her 50’s that has had a lot of injuries and she said it helps her ligaments, etc. It also seems to help with cholesterol. I wonder if pine nuts would be good? They are healthy.
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