Background: Frailty is a common geriatric syndrome associated with poor clinical outcomes. Effectiveness of lifestyle intervention programmes among frail older people has been examined earlier, but effects of interventions on prevention of frailty have been rarely studied. The aim of this study was to investigate to what extent the multidomain lifestyle intervention in the Finnish Geriatric Intervention Study to Prevent Cognitive Impairment and Disability (FINGER) affected changes in frailty status among older men and women at risk of cognitive disorders.

Methods: The 2-year multidomain lifestyle intervention trial including simultaneous nutritional counseling, physical exercise, cognitive training and social activity, and management of metabolic and vascular risk factors, was conducted among 1259 older people (mean age 68.9 years). A modified Fried's frailty phenotype (weight loss, exhaustion, weakness, slowness, and low physical activity) was used to assess frailty at baseline and after the 2-year intervention. Participants with one or more components of the frailty phenotype were classified as pre-frail or frail. A multinomial regression model was applied to investigate efficacy of the intervention on frailty.

Results: We observed a favorable trend in reversing frailty among older men with the intervention. Pre-frail or frail men in the intervention group had higher probability of being non-frail after the intervention (44%) than pre-frail or frail men in the control group (30%) ( = 0.040). Among men, the intervention was especially beneficial in terms of increasing physical activity. Among women, multidomain lifestyle intervention did not affect the frailty status.

Conclusion: Modifying lifestyle-related factors may have potential to reverse first signs of frailty among older men. However, the intervention lasted only two years, therefore, research with longer follow-up is needed to see possible long-term effects of lifestyle management on the development of frailty.

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