Enabling Healthy Aging to AVOID Frailty in Community Dwelling Older Canadians

Jananee Rasiah, Jeanette C. Prorok, Rheda Adekpedjou, Carol Barrie, Carlota Basualdo, Rachel Burns, Vincent De Paul, Catherine Donnelly, Amy Doyle, Christopher Frank, Sarah Dolsen, Anik Giguère, Sonia Hsiung, Perry Kim, Emily G. McDonald, Heather O'Grady, Andrea Patey, John Puxty, Megan Racey, Joyce ResinJoanie Sims-Gould, Susan Stewart, Olga Theou, Sarah Webster, John Muscedere

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Resumen

The Canadian population is aging. With aging, biological and social changes occur increasing the risk of developing chronic conditions and functional loss leading to frailty. Older adults living with frailty are more vulnerable to minor stressors, take longer to recover from illness, and have difficulty participating in daily activities. The Canadian Frailty Network's (CFN) mission is to improve the lives of older adults living with frailty. In September 2019, CFN launched the Activity & Exercise, Vaccination, Optimization of medications, Interaction & Socialization, and Diet & Nutrition (AVOID) Frailty public health campaign to promote assessing and reducing risk factors leading to the development of frailty. As part of the campaign, CFN held an Enabling Healthy Aging Symposium with 36 stakeholders from across Canada. Stakeholders identified individual and community-level opportunities and challenges for the enablement of healthy aging and frailty mitigation, as part of a focused consultative process. Stakeholders ranked the three most important challenges and opportunities at the individual and community levels for implementing AVOID Frailty recommendations. Concrete actions, further research areas, policy changes, and existing resources/programs to enhance the AVOID Frailty campaign were identified. The results will help inform future priorities and behaviour change strategies for healthy aging in Canada.

Idioma originalEnglish
Páginas (desde-hasta)202-211
Número de páginas10
PublicaciónCanadian Geriatrics Journal
Volumen25
N.º2
DOI
EstadoPublished - jun. 2022

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Funding Information:
The Canadian Frailty Network (CFN) is a pan-Canadian, non-for-profit organization funded by the Government of Canada through the Networks of Centres of Excellence Program (NCE). CFN’s mission is to improve the care of those living with frailty in Canada, and has responded in part to this need by developing a public health approach for the enablement of healthy aging. In September 2019, CFN launched a campaign called AVOID Frailty to promote identifying, assessing, and reducing risk factors that lead to the development of frailty. AVOID encompasses: Activity & Exercise, Vaccination, Optimization of medications, Interaction & Socialization, and Diet & Nutrition. For those who develop frailty, there is a need to improve its trajectory such that frailty does not progress, and this framework may help minimize progression.

Funding Information:
Canadian Frailty Network (CFN) is a pan-Canadian network focused on improving the care of older people living with frailty. CFN is comprised of some of Canada’s leading academic institutions, researchers, scientists, health-care professionals, citizens, students, trainees, educators, and decision-makers. CFN supports and catalyzes original research and innovations to improve the care and quality of life of frail Canadians across all settings of care. The Network also trains the next generation of health-care professionals and scientists. CFN is funded by the Government of Canada through the Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) Program. Jananee Rasiah, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, held and was supported by a Canadian Frailty Network Interdisciplinary Fellowship from 2019-2020. We wish to acknowledge the following individuals who contributed to the manuscript through their input in the symposium: Kerry Anderson, Julie Dunning, Samiya Abdi, Rick Bresee, Sha-meela Karmali, Kahir Lalji, Pascale Leon, Patrick McGowan, Deborah Sattler, and Brianna Smrke.

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ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Gerontology
  • Geriatrics and Gerontology

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