Hopper Michelsen (atticquit0)

The population of older adults over 60 years is growing faster than any other age group and will more than double between 2020 and 2050. This increase has led to clinical, public health, and policy interest in how to age "successfully". Before the Rowe and Kahn's model proposed thirty years ago, aging was seen as a process of losses associated with diseases and disability. However, since the emergence of this model, there has been a shift towards a more positive view, serving for promoting diverse medical or psychosocial models, and personal perspectives. Several technical terms of "success" (e.g. "successful aging", "healthy aging", "active aging", "aging well"…) coexist and compete for the meaning of the concept in the absence of a consensual definition. Our literature review article aims to study discrepancies and similarities between the main technical terms through quantitative or qualitative studies. A literature review using PubMed, SCOPUS, PsycINFO, Psycarticles, Psychology, and Behavioral Sciences Collection, Cochrane database, and clinicaltrials.gov databases was conducted. A total of 1057 articles were found and finally, 43 papers were selected for full extraction. We identified several components in these definitions, which reveal considerable inconsistency. The results particularly suggest that lay personals perspectives could bridge the gap between biomedical and psychosocial models in successful aging. In conclusion, an optimal definition would be a multidimensional one that could combine functional capacities, psychosocial abilities, environmental factors and subjective assessments of one's own criteria to discriminate older adults at potential risk of "unsuccessful" aging to healthy aging trajectories. The relationship between frailty and variables such as housing are the least included in models of frailty and research on frailty or social frailty and relocation is negligible. The decision to relocate is complex and demanding for older adults with a loss of independence but little is known about what makes older adults relocate to congregated housing designated for older adults, let alone in combination with social frailty, and how they navigate this transition. This mixed method descriptive study aims to understand the influence of social frailty for a population of French-speaking semi-independent older adults relocating to a housing continuum community. Semi-structured individual interviews including sociodemographic data and the PRISMA-7 Frailty Scale were conducted with recently relocated older adults. A newly opened French-speaking housing continuum community in Eastern Canada that offers luxury apartments for independent older adults, two assisted living facilities for semi-independent olderd. The results indicate that several social factors contributed to relocation and that participants were experiencing social frailty. Participants were at the crossover point of being vulnerable to experiencing additional deficits which would potentially have led to higher frailty had they not relocated. Lung cancer is the second most prevalent common cancer in the world and predominantly affects older adults. This study aimed to examine the impact of an exercise programme in the use of health resources in older adults and to assess their changes in frailty status. This is a secondary analysis of a quasi-experimental study with a non-randomized control group. Oncogeriatrics Unit of the Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Spain. Newly diagnosed patients with NSCLC stage I-IV. Multicomponent exercise programme that combined resistance, endurance, balance and flexibility exercises. Each session lasted 45-50 minutes, and the exercise protocol was performed twice a week over 10 weeks. Mortality, readmissions and Visits to the Emergency Department. Change in frailty status according to Fried, VES-13 and G-8 sca