Research Article: Individualized Hospital to Home, Exercise-Nutrition Self-Managed Intervention for Pre-Frail and Frail Hospitalized Older Adults: The INDEPENDENCE Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial
Introduction:
Frailty, as described by Fried et al, is a clinical syndrome in which three or more of the following conditions are present: unintentional weight loss, self-reported exhaustion, weak grip strength, slow walking speed, and low physical activity. Pre-frailty or intermediate frailty is defined as a state before frailty, in which an individual has one or two of the aforementioned criteria. It identifies those patients who are at a high risk of progression to frailty. Frailty and pre-frailty increase an individual’s…
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