| Summary: | The prevention and delay of disability is important for promoting healthy aging. Exercise intervention is an efficient strategy for disability prevention. Besides, exercise intervention presents significant therapeutic advantages and broad application prospects due to low cost, low implementation difficulty, high acceptance and wide application scenarios. Therefore, Nursing Group of Chinese Society of Geriatrics, Committee on Geriatric Nursing of Chinese Association of Geriatric Research, China Gerontological Nursing Alliance, National Center of Gerontology, Institute of Geriatric Medicine of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences jointly developed and published Clinical Practice Guidelines for Exercise Interventions for the Prevention of Disability in Older Adults (2023). According to the methodologies specified in WHO Handbook for Guideline Development, the guidelines finally involve 32 recommendations and 18 clinical issues containing exercise principles, effectiveness and plans of different types of exercise, facilitators and barriers during exercise, aiming to provide a reference for the development and implementation of exercise programs for older adults at risk of disability and standardize clinical practice, thus promoting the gateway to improving physical function of the older adults, reducing the prevalence of disability, improving quality of life, contributing to healthy aging.
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