In old age, a tighter interlinkage between different domains of functional capacity may indicate a loss of system resilience. This was observed in a study conducted at the Faculty of Sport and ...

After doing specific training for 12 weeks, people over the age of 90 improved their strength ... "the training raised their functional capacity, lowered the risk of falls, and improved muscle ...

Any result lower than 100 percent indicates some degree of functional impairment for age. For example, a 60-year-old woman whose exercise capacity was 7 MET on a Bruce-protocol exercise test would ...

The research suggests that as people age, their ability to absorb or ... protein intake and future decline in higher-level functional capacity in older community-dwelling adults in Japan.

In primary care, formal functional capacity testing is not always feasible. Guidelines for family practitioners suggest the use of dyspnoea scales to assess exercise tolerance in patients with ...

PALYs were estimated based on population numbers by gender and age group, and based on the prevalence of chronic conditions, and the work and functional capacity impairment they cause.