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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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Management of frailty: opportunities, challenges, and future directions.

TL;DR: This work advocates change towards individually tailored interventions that preserve an individual's independence, physical function, and cognition by promoting the recognition of frailty, furthering advancements in evidence-based treatment options, and identifying cost-effective care delivery strategies.
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International Clinical Practice Guidelines for Sarcopenia (ICFSR): Screening, Diagnosis and Management

Elsa Dent, +38 more
TL;DR: Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for screening, diagnosis and management of sarcopenia from the task force of the International Conference on Sarcopenia and Frailty Research (ICSFR) are presented.
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Physical Frailty: ICFSR International Clinical Practice Guidelines for Identification and Management

TL;DR: The task force of the International Conference of Frailty and Sarcopenia Research developed these clinical practice guidelines to overview the current evidence-base and provide recommendations for the identification and management of frailty in older adults using the GRADE approach.
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Frailty syndrome: implications and challenges for health care policy.

TL;DR: Based on currently available evidence, multi-domain intervention trials, including exercise component, especially multicomponent exercise, which includes resistance training, seem to be promising and further understanding of interventions to reverse frailty, and education/training of health care professionals should also be considered.
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Practice Guideline Development, Grading, and Assessment.

TL;DR: Clinicians must know the commonly used systems for grading guideline recommendations and for evaluating guideline quality so that they can appropriately use guidelines and provide the highest level of patient care.
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An individualized exercise programme with and without behavioural change enhancement strategies for managing fatigue among frail older people: a quasi-experimental pilot study

TL;DR: The combined intervention has the potential to enhance the participants’ adherence to exercise regimens by improving their attendance in training sessions and their self-perceived exercise compliance.
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The Case for Stage-Specific Frailty Interventions Spanning Community Aging to Cognitive Impairment

TL;DR: The findings lend initial support to the case for stage-specific interventions for physical frailty with the focus on SO in healthy community-dwelling older persons and cognitive-based measures in older adults with cognitive impairment.
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WHO puts healthy ageing on the front burner

John Maurice
- 09 Jan 2016 - 
TL;DR: “You old people get out and do something!” the advice comes from Felimina Rotundo, who runs a laundry shop in Buff alo, NY, USA, and has been “doing something”—working 11 hours a day, 6 days a week, from dawn to dusk—for the past 85 years.
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