{"id":911525,"date":"2026-09-30T22:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T22:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/911525\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T22:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T22:48:08","slug":"walking-faster-may-help-reverse-frailty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/911525\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking Faster May Help Reverse Frailty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping active in older age pays dividends\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Encouraging older people to take it slowly might sound like reasonable advice, says Margaret Danilovich, a physical therapist and instructor at Northwestern University and an author of the new paper. &#8220;People tend to assume, \u2018Someone is frail. We shouldn&#8217;t have them do too much,\u2019\u201d she says. But, she says, that\u2019s a miscalculation, and older folks are capable of more than they might think.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">In the current study, she and her colleagues set up exercise groups in 14 retirement homes. Research assistants assessed people\u2019s frailty before and after the intervention and coached them during several months of weekly walking sessions in the retirement community hallways. Each group performed similar walking tasks\u2014walking forward, backward, with walkers and without\u2014but half of them walked casually, while the others were encouraged to walk much faster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keeping active in older age pays dividends\u00a0 Encouraging older people to take it slowly might sound like reasonable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1725,64,63,22029,538,137],"class_list":["post-911525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-aging","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-exercise-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}