Older persons with signs of frailty in a home-based physical exercise intervention: baseline characteristics of an RCT

Sara Suikkanen,Paula Soukkio,Kaisu H. Pitkälä,Sanna Kääriä,Hannu Kautiainen,Sarianna Sipilä,Katriina Kukkonen-Harjula,Markku Hupli

Older persons with signs of frailty in a home-based physical exercise intervention: baseline characteristics of an RCT

2019

Sara Suikkanen
Paula Soukkio
Kaisu H. Pitkälä
Sanna Kääriä
Hannu Kautiainen
Sarianna Sipilä
Katriina Kukkonen-Harjula
Markku Hupli

Background Increasing the level of physical activity among persons with signs of frailty improves physical functioning. There is a lack of long-term supervised physical exercise intervention studies including a validated definition of frailty.

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Randomized controlled trial
Physical therapy
Physical exercise
Medicine
Diabetes mellitus
Functional Independence Measure
Randomization
Quality of life
intervention studies
baseline characteristics
home based

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