CHST Research Seminar: Incorporating Intensive Strength Training Into Prevention and Rehabilitation of Geriatric Frailty: A Review
CHST Research Seminar: Incorporating Intensive Strength Training Into Prevention and Rehabilitation of Geriatric Frailty: A Review
Featuring Dr. Elizabeth Perry, Sr Lecturer & Associate Director, Biomedical Sciences | Alex Matthews-Elston, Exercise Science Student
Frailty has long been regarded as a natural, inevitable side effect of advanced age, leading to significant loss of independent function, compounding of physical disabilities, and death. An aged person who is also frail has an increased vulnerability to injury from falls or physiological damage from weight bearing and other use. Fears of these consequences can lead to adoption of a risk-adverse, risk-reduction model of care, daily living, activity selection, and environmental design, but these choices have been shown to exacerbate and accelerate age-related deterioration and neuromuscular degenerative conditions such as sarcopenia, sarcopenic obesity, and osteopenia. These effects may be compounded by the normalization of sedentary lifestyles in a high proportion of individuals across all ages. This review presents a data-driven argument for intentional, progressive, and consistent resistance training in the late-middle-aged and geriatric population and discusses the need for further emergence of geriatric specialities in exercise science, in order to better support our burgeoning aging populations.
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