查看文章

The aim was to establish whether a short supervised facility-based exercise program improved frailty, physical function and performance in comparison with usual care treatment.

This was a quasi-experimental, non-randomized controlled intervention study in frail (2.75 ± 1.25 Frailty Phenotype criteria) older adults (range:77.2–95.8 years). The exercise (EX) group (n = 11) performed concurrent training (power training + high-intensity interval training, HIIT) twice weekly for 6 weeks while the control (CT) group (n = 9) followed usual care.

The exercise intervention improved frailty status in 64% of the subjects improving Frailty Phenotype by 1.6 points (95%CI 0.8–2.5, p < 0.05), and increasing SPPB score by 3.2 points (95%CI: 2.4–4.0, Cohen's d = 2.0, p < 0.05), muscle power by 47% (95%CI: 7–87%, Cohen's d = 0.5, p < 0.05), muscle strength by 34%(95%CI: 7–60 …