Excerpted from:
https://academic.oup.com/ageing/article/42/3/279/24025/Fitness-and-frailty-opposite-ends-of-a-challenging
Fitness and Frailty: Opposite Ends of a Challenging Continuum!
by Roman Romero-Ortuno and Diarmuid O’Shea
January 24, 2013
Summary: “Key Points”
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‘Fit’ people are resilient; ‘frail’ people are vulnerable.
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Age alone cannot tell where a person is along the ‘fitness-frailty’ spectrum.
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Subjective impressions of ‘fitness-frailty’ may not be sufficient in the eyes of the Equality Act 2010.
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Objective ‘fitness-frailty’ metrics will be required in health and social care.
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Now is the time for professional consensus on this complex matter.
Read the full article: https://academic.oup.com/ageing/article/42/3/279/24025/Fitness-and-frailty-opposite-ends-of-a-challenging
