Medical challenges of improving the quality of a longer life.

摘要

Within this perspective, the prevention of age-related frailty (a vulnerable status preceding the onset of overt disability7) and of age-related disability (which may be linked either to aging or chronic conditions associated with age8) could begin at any age. Targeted strategies that have the potential to lead to healthy old age include reducing frailty and age-related disability, but also addressing disease-associated disability and identifying (and intervening on) those at risk in the earlier stages of life.