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Cognitive Reserve & Frailty Reversal: What It Means for Your Treatment Plan
Your pre-frail patients are your biggest opportunity, and their brain may be the variable you're missing.
In this episode, Dustin Jones (Lead Faculty, MMOA) breaks down a new BMC Geriatrics study that followed 13,000 community-dwelling older adults for six years, and what it means for your plan of care on Monday.
What you'll learn:
✅ What cognitive reserve is (and how it mirrors physical reserve)
✅ How higher cognitive reserve lowers the risk of progressing toward frailty
✅ Why pre-frail patients are the most responsive window you'll get
✅ 4 ways to bake cognitive demand into exercises you…
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