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The Asia-Pacific Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Frailty

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The recommendations provided herein are intended for use by healthcare providers in their management of older adults with frailty in the Asia Pacific region and it is proposed that regional guideline support committees be formed to help provide regular updates to these evidence-based guidelines.
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This article is published in Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.The article was published on 2017-07-01. It has received 363 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Deprescribing & Guideline.

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Low 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and the risk of frailty syndrome: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis.

TL;DR: This dose-response meta-analysis indicates that serum 25OHD levels are significantly and directly associated with the risk of frailty and whether vitamin D supplementation is effective for preventing frailty syndrome.
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Treatment of sarcopenia: the road to the future.

TL;DR: The advent of patient-centred (P4) care has increased attention to the fact that different molecular changes can result in the need to have different therapeutic approaches to similar conditions such as sarcopenia, and Riuzzi et al. highlight that sarc Openia can result from a variety of molecular changes resulting in changes in myofibre metabolism and alterations in satellite cell properties.
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Associations between multidimensional frailty and quality of life among Dutch older people

TL;DR: Quality of life in older people is associated with physical, psychological and social frailty components, emphasizing the importance of a multidimensional assessment of frailty.
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Approach to frailty in the elderly in primary care and the community.

TL;DR: With ongoing training and education, the multidisciplinary engagement and coordination of care of the elderly in the community can help to build resilience and combat frailty in the authors' rapidly ageing society.
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Frailty, a multisystem ageing syndrome.

TL;DR: This model focusses diagnostic criteria for frailty onto the biomarkers of ageing and generates new targets for the prevention and treatment of frailty based on interventions that influence ageing biology.
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Frailty in Older Adults Evidence for a Phenotype

TL;DR: This study provides a potential standardized definition for frailty in community-dwelling older adults and offers concurrent and predictive validity for the definition, and finds that there is an intermediate stage identifying those at high risk of frailty.
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The Timed “Up & Go”: A Test of Basic Functional Mobility for Frail Elderly Persons

TL;DR: This study evaluated a modified, timed version of the “Get‐Up and Go” Test (Mathias et al, 1986) in 60 patients referred to a Geriatric Day Hospital and suggested that the timed “Up & Go’ test is a reliable and valid test for quantifying functional mobility that may also be useful in following clinical change over time.
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ACSM's guidelines for exercise testing and prescription

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the benefits and risks associated with physical activity and propose a general principles of exercise prescription for healthy populations with special consideration and environmental consideration, as well as a prescription for patients with chronic diseases and health conditions.
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Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations.

TL;DR: A system for grading the quality of evidence and the strength of recommendations that can be applied across a wide range of interventions and contexts is developed, and a summary of the approach from the perspective of a guideline user is presented.
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