Frailty - how to manage it and how to delay it

Saving Lives In Slow Motion

It’s something that befalls most of us as we age, but what is it?

It is a marker of vulnerability as we age and in many ways a soft tool to

predict our risk of future illness and rate of decline.

In this episode I look at how it is assessed and what we can do to prevent it.

Links:

Rockwood score: https://www.england.nhs.uk/south/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2022/02/rockwood-frailty-scale_.pdf

Standing desks: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/7-benefits-of-a-standing-desk

Prognosis in frailty: https://www.bgs.org.uk/resources/end-of-life-care-in-frailty-identification-and-prognostication

Ageing well: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/stay-strong-four-ways-to-beat-the-frailty-risk

An AI device tech example:

https://www.miicare.co.uk/

Gait analysis: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2021.749274/full

Creatine: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7996960/

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