Impact of Exercise in Community-Dwelling Older Adults

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Authors

Arnold Mitnitski · Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre

Kenneth Rockwood · Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre

Abstract

In community-dwelling older people, exercise attenuated the impact of age on mortality across all grades of frailty. Exercise conferred its greatest benefits to improvements in health status in those who were more frail at baseline. The net effect of exercise should therefore be to improve health status at the population level.

Topics & Keywords

Frailty in Older Adults Nutrition and Health in Aging Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: PLoS ONE

Volume 4, Issue 7, pp. e6174-e6174

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006174

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