Frailty and Resilience Across Aging: A Holistic Approach to Elderly Care
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 276
Special Issue Editor
Interests: community based geriatrics; frailty; sarcopenia; geriatric pharmacology; preservation of autonomy and functionality
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Dear Colleagues,
It is becoming more and more evident that when it comes to older people it is very difficult to maintain the traditional, disease-oriented, conceptual healthcare approach. The situations that may describe an older person’s condition are far more complicated. The emergence of the concepts of frailty to summarize the complex status of an older person and of resilience as a goal to attain and an outcome of aging and geriatric interventions seem more appropriate.
We are pleased to invite researchers from the field of Geriatrics, Primary Healthcare, Nursing, Policymaking, Dietetics and Physiotherapy of Healthcare management and all relevant fields that may participate in the holistic team-based approach of the frail older person in the community, at the hospital in Long-Term Care facilities to contribute valuable insights regarding a multidimensional holistic approach of frailty and resilience.
This Special Issue aims to promote best practices, highlight everyday challenges, and enable the scientific discussion of the holistic approach of older people in need of care, namely those with frailty.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following: preservation of resilience across aging, models of multidisciplinary approach of frailty, management of frail patients in the community setting, nutritional specificities of frail older people, and emerging needs in Long-Term Care.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. George Soulis
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- resilience
- holistic approach
- frailty
- multidisciplinary team
- nutritional
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