Luis Miguel Gutiérrez-Robledo

TL;DR: There is agreement on the usefulness of defining frailty in clinical settings as well as on its main dimensions, however, additional research is needed before an operative definition of frailty can be established.

TL;DR: To determine whether adding cognitive impairment to frailty improves its predictive validity for adverse health outcomes, a study of memory loss in elderly people with dementia is conducted.

TL;DR: The identification of frailty as a target for implementing preventive interventions against age-related conditions is pivotal and every effort should be made by health care authorities to maximize efforts in this field.

TL;DR: The construct proposed by Fried and colleagues confirms its predictive validity for adverse-health outcomes, particularly for certain components of disability, thus suggesting that it may be useful in population screening and predicting service needs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide evidence-based rationale for using exercise and physical activity (PA) for health promotion and disease prevention and treatment in older adults, and discuss the specific modalities and doses that have been studied in randomised controlled trials for their effectiveness in attenuating physiological changes of ageing, disease prevention, and/or improvement of older adults with chronic disease and disability.