Recommendation 6

Frailty is not an inevitable or irreversible aspect of ageing, and early intervention offers significant opportunities to prevent or slow its progression. Exercise programmes can reverse frailty, reduce the risk of developing dementia and improve outcomes for people living with dementia. However, these benefits will only be realised at scale if underpinned by a coherent national strategy. These interventions must also be understood by commissioners, and prescribed and delivered by health professionals, in a comparable way to drug treatments. (Conclusion, Paragraph 26)