Unravelling the miscellaneous effects of exercise interventions on activities of daily living in frail older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Introduction: Frailty in older adults impairs Activities of Daily Living (ADL). While exercise interventions improve factors like muscle strength and physical function, their direct impact on ADL ability is inconsistent. This review aims to assess the effectiveness of exercise on ADL ability, identify the most beneficial interventions, and explore mediators.

Functional Capacity and Functional Ability in an Aging Population: A Scoping Review.

Background And Objectives: The rapidly aging global population brought increasing attention to the concepts of functional capacity (FC) and functional ability (FA), key indicators of health and well-being in older adults. Despite their importance, FC and FA are inconsistently defined, with varying dimensions and measurement approaches. This scoping review clarifies these concepts by summarizing current definitions, mapping their dimensions, identifying assessment tools, and proposing precise operational definitions to guide future research.

Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a home-based functional exercise programme for community-dwelling frail older adults, ACTIVE-AGE@home, provided by professionals and volunteers: protocol of a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

Between 2020 and 2050, the world's population aged 80 years and over will triple, drastically increasing the prevalence of frailty and associated healthcare costs. Multimodal exercise programmes have proven to be an ideal countermeasure for frailty, but the current Flemish standard of care does not include them. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the home-based exercise programme for frail community-dwelling older adults (>70 years), ACTIVE-AGE@home, on frailty-associated outcomes, when delivered by professionals or volunteers, as well as its cost-effectiveness.