ABSTRACT
This chapter describes intervention methods for frail older adults are typically described as including physical exercise, nutritional management, hormone replacement, protein and vitamin D supplementation and lifestyle interventions. It suggests that care and support should be to encourage health, wellbeing and independence, and to discourage disability, dependence and illness. Frailty is undeniably a complex health state with multiple domains and dimensions, urging perhaps an approach of multicomponent interventions. Interventions very much fit into the biomedical model of viewing frailty, with an intervention actively done to a patient who is frail to improve outcomes in health and wellbeing. Interventions could prevent or delay negative health outcomes of frailty for community-dwelling older adults with impacts on family members/caregivers, healthcare providers and the healthcare system. Exercise training for health and function in older persons contains different components, that is strength or power training, aerobic exercise and balance/gait and flexibility training.
