Symposia
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- Track: Clinical Practice
- CME/CE: 1.0
Sponsored by the Healthy Aging SIG
Moderator: Halina Kusz, MD, FACP, AGSF
This session will review the latest evidence-based lifestyle medicine approaches to frailty prevention and reversal, and how clinicians can help patients to build motivation for behavior change. Learning Objectives: (1) describe the evidence base and current recommendations for lifestyle approaches for frailty prevention and reversal, including physical activity and mind-body programs, and nutrition; (2) apply knowledge of lifestyle approaches to frailty to clinical cases, selecting appropriate interventions and/or initiating referrals when appropriate; (3) utilize principles of behavior change when counseling a patient on initiating or maintaining lifestyle changes.
Movement-Based Mind-Body Therapies for Frailty Julia Loewenthal, MD |
Coaching Older Adults to Engage in Physical Activity Sharon L. Kimble, PT, DPT |
How Can We Help Our Patients Optimize Their Dietary Patterns to Prevent or Even Reverse Frailty? Elizabeth Eckstrom, MD, MPH |