Research progress on exercise intervention for frail elderly people / 中华老年医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Frailty is one of the most common clinical geriatric syndromes and has become a hot topic in the geriatric field in recent years.Frailty can confer an increased risk of adverse outcomes such as falls, hospitalization and even death.Therefore, timely diagnosis and intervention of frailty is of great practical significance for improving the health status of the elderly and alleviating the burden on the social and medical service systems.This article reviews mechanisms, types and effects of exercise intervention measures and summarizes research progress on exercise intervention in the elderly with frailty, in order to provide a reference for future research on exercise intervention for frailty.