Prevention and Management of Frailty

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to send contributions to the Special Issue of IJERPH entitled “Prevention and Management of Frailty”.

It is important to prevent and manage the frailty of the elderly because their muscle strength and physical activity decrease in old age, making them prone to falling, depression, and social isolation. In the end, they need to be admitted to a hospital or a nursing home.

When successful aging fails and motor ability declines due to illness, malnutrition, or reduced activity, frailty eventually occurs. Once frailty occurs, people with frailty do not have the power to exercise or the power to move. The functions of the heart and muscles are deteriorated more rapidly when they are not used. Consequently, frailty goes through a vicious cycle. As one’s physical fitness is deteriorated, the person has less power to exercise, poorer cognitive functions, and inferior nutrition intake. Consequently, the whole body of the person deteriorates. Therefore, in addition to observational studies to identify risk factors for preventing aging, various intervention studies have been conducted to develop exercise programs and apply them to communities, hospitals, and nursing homes for helping the elderly maintain healthy lives. The British Geriatrics Society published the “Fit for Frailty”, a clinical guideline, that can be used in the community and in the outpatient environment in order to actively manage frailty. Moreover, the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG) formed “Frailty.net” using the Internet media and has provided training and promotional materials for more clinical applications, as well as up-to-date information on frailty.

Until now, most aging studies have focused on physical frailty. However, social frailty and cognitive frailty affect senile health negatively just as much as physical frailty. Nevertheless, little is known about social frailty and cognitive frailty. This Special Issue invites you to submit original experimental studies, reviews, systematic reviews, and meta-analysis studies on frailty (i.e., physical frailty, cognitive frailty, and social frailty) prevention, the detection of high-risk groups, differentiation, and interventions. We also welcome studies on aging, hearing (presbycusis), presbyphonia, cognition, IoT for public health monitoring, and big data science in all aging disciplines.

Prof. Haewon Byeon
Prof. Jaewon Nah
Guest Editors

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