Japan faces unprecedented rapid growth of an ageing population and it is the most
prominent in developed countries. In this trend, provision of social care services was
introduced in 2000 to prevent the deterioration of health and to maintain
independent living in the community under the Long-Term Care (LTC) policy.
Lidia Castillo-Mariqueo1,2 and Lydia Giménez-Llort1,2*
The frailty corresponds to a syndrome of well-defined biological and clinical
characteristics within its physical phenotype, is multidimensional, dynamic and nonlinear.
It has a high prevalence in the elderly population and increases after 65 years
of age. The syndrome of frailty can be considered as a state of predis-capacity or
risk of developing a disability and dependence from a situation of incipient functional
limitation. It is identified by a decrease in the resistance and the physiological
reserves that lead to a deterioration of the physiological systems, causing adverse
effects on health.
