{"id":185,"date":"2020-04-20T13:13:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T03:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/caring-futures-institute\/?p=185"},"modified":"2020-12-03T12:00:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T01:30:29","slug":"age-well-from-40-and-avoid-pre-frailty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/caring-futures-institute\/2020\/04\/20\/age-well-from-40-and-avoid-pre-frailty\/","title":{"rendered":"Age well from 40 and avoid ‘pre-frailty’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caring Futures Institute researchers and international colleagues are urging people as young as 40 to look after their physical and mental health to reduce or even avoid ‘frailty’ and a higher mortality risk.<\/p>\n

A new study published online in BMC Geriatrics<\/a> found that pre-frailty occurs in 45% of people aged 40-49 – which is the same percentage of people aged 70-75.<\/p>\n

The study found that from the age of 40 or even younger, people in pre-frailty stages have the opportunity to avoid poor health outcomes and frailty.<\/p>\n

“You don’t have to be in your 70s or 80s to be heading down the path to frailty. Age doesn’t matter,” says Caring Futures Institute researcher and Strategic Professor Sue Gordon, Chair of Restorative Care in Ageing at Flinders University.<\/p>\n

“Successful healthy ageing interventions and self-management should commence in at least the fourth decade of life focusing on these factors which contribute to pre-frailty and frailty.”<\/p>\n

People can try to reduce or avoid frailty by improving:<\/p>\n