Recovery from or progression to frailty during the second year of the COVID‐19 pandemic
Recovery from or progression to frailty during the second year of the COVID‐19 pandemic
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COVID-19 大流行第二年期间从虚弱中恢复或进展为虚弱
DOI:
10.1111/ggi.14421
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发表时间:
2022
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通讯作者:
Arai Hidenori
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作者:
Yamada Minoru;Arai Hidenori
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a huge impact on people’s lives, especially those of older adults. In the first year of the pandemic, the “stay-at-home policy” to avoid COVID-19 infection led to greatly limited physical activity (PA) 1 and an increased risk of incident frailty2 in community-dwelling older adults. However, in the second year of the pandemic, vaccination and other political measures were promoted, and the overall social atmosphere seemed to be different. This study aimed to observe changes in PA and social activity (SA) in older adults during this pandemic and to explore the factors associated with recovery from or progression to frailty in older adults from January 2021 to January 2022.We conducted online baseline1 and first3 and second follow-up surveys in April 2020, January 2021, and January 2022, respectively. This study excluded older adults who were frail at the baseline survey and those who did not respond to the follow-up surveys. Among the 1600 baseline survey participants, 388 were already frail, and 275 and 140 older adults did not respond to the first and second follow-up survey, respectively (final number of participants: 797; follow-up rate: 65.8%).