Even if you are a lone wolf, considering some group activities may not be a bad idea, especially when it comes to health care. Osaka Metropolitan University scientists have found that community-based adult day services help lower the risk of frailty in older adults.
Frailty is a state of physical and mental decline that results from aging; it represents an intermediate status between being healthy and being severely disabled. In a rapidly aging society, preventing frailty and maintaining independence in older adults are crucial challenges.
"In Japan, older individuals certified as being on a support level in a so-called public Long-Term Care Insurance program utilize two typical types of LTCI services: community-based adult day services and home-based personal assistance services," explained Professor Ayumi Kono, from the Graduate School of Nursing at Osaka Metropolitan University.
Adult day services are forms of community-based care that offers social, recreational, and health-related services in group settings.
Professor Kono and her team conducted a claims-based analysis on 655 non-frail or pre-frail older adults who were newly certified as having low care needs to investigate the relationship between the risk of frailty and the utilization of the two typical types of care service during the five years after certification in the LTCI program. The results were published in theThe results showed that utilizing adult day services mitigated the risk of developing frailty by 40% compared with not doing so.
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