Nutritional Strategies for Physical Frailty and Age-Related Muscle Loss
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Geriatric Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 December 2025 | Viewed by 1
Special Issue Editors
Interests: geriatrics; aging; sarcopenia; malnutrition; quality of life; body composition
Interests: older people; nutrition; nutritional status; functional decline; muscle function; quality of life
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue, titled “Nutritional Strategies for Physical Frailty and Age-Related Muscle Loss”, aims to verify the effectiveness of various nutritional strategies in improving frailty status and examine their impact on muscle loss. It will explore how general and personalized dietary therapies combined with other lifestyle changes might improve particular frailty criteria and prevent muscle quantity and quality decline.
Frailty is an age-related geriatric syndrome characterized by a decrease in the functionality of multiple physiological systems, thereby increasing vulnerability to stressors, while age-related muscle loss leads to a direct decline in daily living activities. Both conditions impact quality of life in older people. The etiology of the development of frailty syndrome is multifactorial, with improper nutritional status and unintentional weight loss both serving as important risk factors in this context. Various nutritional interventions, including higher diet quality, increased protein, fruit, and vegetable intake, lower alcohol consumption, and higher quantities of calcium, vitamin D, and amino acids, may have impacts on frailty and muscle mass.
We hope that this Special Issue will provide medical practitioners with useful insights for improving patient care through nutritional treatment.
Dr. Małgorzata Pigłowska
Dr. Tomasz Kostka
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- frailty and pre-frailty
- muscle loss
- sarcopenia
- nutrition
- nutritional management
- dietary supplements
- older adults
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