HIGH-INTENSITY WALKING EXERCISE REDUCES FRAILTY AMONG PREFRAIL AND FRAIL OLDER ADULTS
Margaret Danilovich, Daniel Corcos, Ying Cheung, David Conroy, Lauren Balmert Bonner · 2023
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Margaret Danilovich, Daniel Corcos, Ying Cheung, David Conroy, and Lauren Balmert Bonner test whether harder walking helps frail elders in this two thousand twenty-three trial. Exercise is the treatment urged for frailty, but the dose of effort is unknown. Their cluster randomized trial enrolled one hundred sixty-five pre-frail and frail residents of twelve living communities. Participants walked three times weekly for four months, supervised, at either high intensity, above seventy percent of heart rate reserve, or low intensity, below fifty percent.
The outcome was improvement in frailty category on the SHARE-FI instrument. The high-intensity group had nearly triple the odds of improving at least one category against the low-intensity group. Other outcomes favored intensity too: usual gait speed and six-minute walk distance improved more. Participants averaged seventy-nine years old. The authors urge that older adults be pushed toward harder walking where safe.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Margaret Danilovich, Daniel Corcos, Ying Cheung, David Conroy, Lauren Balmert Bonner |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |