ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2021
Prehabilitation Program in Elderly Patients: A Prospective Cohort Study of Patients Followed Up Postoperatively for Up to 6 Months.
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- Effects of prehabilitation programmes on postoperative outcomes in older adults undergoing major abdominal, cardiac or vascular surgery: a systematic review.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2026Pooled it
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- The effect of perioperative multimodal rehabilitation on the frailty state of older people patients with frailty gastrointestinal surgery: a randomized controlled trial.BMC geriatrics · 2025Trial
- Prehabilitation in older adults with cancer: scoping review of surgical outcomes.BMJ supportive & palliative care · 2026Article
- Preoperative Anesthesia Assessment in Elderly Patients: Challenges and Opportunities for Safer Perioperative Care.Cureus · 2025Review
- Functional dependence predicts adverse outcomes among geriatric otolaryngology patients better than more complex risk scales: a multivariate analysis of hospitalization risks on elderly group.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Advances in Perioperative Nutrition.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- The Prevalence and the Impact of Frailty in Hepato-Biliary Pancreatic Cancers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
The preoperative period may be an opportune period to optimize patients' physical condition with a multimodal preoperative program. The impact of a "prehabilitation" program on elderly patients is discussed. This mono-center observational cohort study included consecutively 139 patients planned for major abdominal and thoracic surgery, with 44 in the control group (age < 65) and 95 in the elderly group (age > 65). All patients followed a "prehabilitation" program including exercise training, nutritional optimization, psychological support, and behavioral change. Seventeen patients in the control group and 45 in the elderly group completed the study at six months. The 6-minute walk test (6 MWT) increased in both groups from the initial evaluation to the last (median value of 80 m (interquartile range 51) for those under 65 years; 59 m (34) for the elderly group;
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