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A qualitative study examining everyday frailty management strategies adopted by Polish stakeholders
Background: Frailty is a multidimensional clinical state that is common in older age and can be managed through intervention. Strategies to manage frailty have not been previously explored with stakeholders in Poland. This may stem from misperceptions about the nature and malleability of frailty, wh...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6853243/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31588812 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13814788.2019.1668372 |
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author | Bujnowska-Fedak, Maria Magdalena Gwyther, Holly Szwamel, Katarzyna D’Avanzo, Barbara Holland, Carol Shaw, Rachel L. Kurpas, Donata |
author_facet | Bujnowska-Fedak, Maria Magdalena Gwyther, Holly Szwamel, Katarzyna D’Avanzo, Barbara Holland, Carol Shaw, Rachel L. Kurpas, Donata |
author_sort | Bujnowska-Fedak, Maria Magdalena |
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description | Background: Frailty is a multidimensional clinical state that is common in older age and can be managed through intervention. Strategies to manage frailty have not been previously explored with stakeholders in Poland. This may stem from misperceptions about the nature and malleability of frailty, which has resulted in it being viewed as a lower priority healthcare concern. Objectives: To explore stakeholders’ views to determine whether there are effective everyday strategies that they can adopt to reduce, reverse or prevent frailty. Methods: Semi-structured focus groups were conducted with five stakeholder groups (frail/pre-frail and robust older adults, health and social care professionals and family caregivers) in Poland (n = 44). Data was analysed using a reflexive thematic analysis approach. Results: Two themes were developed. The first emphasized both the positive everyday and more effortful strategies used by individuals to counter frailty; these included the adoption of healthy lifestyle behaviours, social engagement and shared experiences. Stakeholders perceived that older adults, even frail ones, might benefit from engaging in meaningful activities to build resilience against frailty. The second examined formal interventions delivered by health and social care professionals. Stakeholders noted the need to increase awareness of the malleability of frailty among professionals. Conclusion: Raising awareness of the malleability of frailty amongst health and social care professionals is critical. Further, information provision and personal support should be essential elements of health interventions aimed at older adults and family caregivers. Interventions to support resilience building in older adults should also be framed within a model of fostering self-efficacy. |
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spelling | pubmed-68532432019-11-22 A qualitative study examining everyday frailty management strategies adopted by Polish stakeholders Bujnowska-Fedak, Maria Magdalena Gwyther, Holly Szwamel, Katarzyna D’Avanzo, Barbara Holland, Carol Shaw, Rachel L. Kurpas, Donata Eur J Gen Pract Original Articles Background: Frailty is a multidimensional clinical state that is common in older age and can be managed through intervention. Strategies to manage frailty have not been previously explored with stakeholders in Poland. This may stem from misperceptions about the nature and malleability of frailty, which has resulted in it being viewed as a lower priority healthcare concern. Objectives: To explore stakeholders’ views to determine whether there are effective everyday strategies that they can adopt to reduce, reverse or prevent frailty. Methods: Semi-structured focus groups were conducted with five stakeholder groups (frail/pre-frail and robust older adults, health and social care professionals and family caregivers) in Poland (n = 44). Data was analysed using a reflexive thematic analysis approach. Results: Two themes were developed. The first emphasized both the positive everyday and more effortful strategies used by individuals to counter frailty; these included the adoption of healthy lifestyle behaviours, social engagement and shared experiences. Stakeholders perceived that older adults, even frail ones, might benefit from engaging in meaningful activities to build resilience against frailty. The second examined formal interventions delivered by health and social care professionals. Stakeholders noted the need to increase awareness of the malleability of frailty among professionals. Conclusion: Raising awareness of the malleability of frailty amongst health and social care professionals is critical. Further, information provision and personal support should be essential elements of health interventions aimed at older adults and family caregivers. Interventions to support resilience building in older adults should also be framed within a model of fostering self-efficacy. Taylor & Francis 2019-10-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6853243/ /pubmed/31588812 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13814788.2019.1668372 Text en © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Bujnowska-Fedak, Maria Magdalena Gwyther, Holly Szwamel, Katarzyna D’Avanzo, Barbara Holland, Carol Shaw, Rachel L. Kurpas, Donata A qualitative study examining everyday frailty management strategies adopted by Polish stakeholders |
title | A qualitative study examining everyday frailty management strategies adopted by Polish stakeholders |
title_full | A qualitative study examining everyday frailty management strategies adopted by Polish stakeholders |
title_fullStr | A qualitative study examining everyday frailty management strategies adopted by Polish stakeholders |
title_full_unstemmed | A qualitative study examining everyday frailty management strategies adopted by Polish stakeholders |
title_short | A qualitative study examining everyday frailty management strategies adopted by Polish stakeholders |
title_sort | qualitative study examining everyday frailty management strategies adopted by polish stakeholders |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6853243/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31588812 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13814788.2019.1668372 |
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