Preventing Functional Decline

Promoting Health Longevity through Mitigation and Prevention of Frailty in Community-dwelling Elderly (Pro-LIFE)

Status

Completed

Objective

Primary Aims:

Develop an efficient comprehensive assessment tool employing validated instruments through a multi-domain rapid geriatric screen and physical performance battery. This can be administered by non-clinicians within the community to identify frail older adults and those at high risk for developing frailty.
Determine whether a community multi-factorial intervention in pre-frail older adults that incorporates physical exercise and nutrition, with strategies to enhance self-management abilities, improves physical performance and prevents frailty progression.

Secondary Aim:
Examine whether distinct subtypes of physical frailty follow different trajectories.