Margaret Danilovich

Aug 7, 2024 | associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | David E. Conroy |Margaret Danilovich |Daniel Rubin |Kyle Tingling

Functional capacity assessment before surgery identifies older adults at increased risk of functional decline after major surgery [1]. Increasing physical activity before surgery has shown efficacy to mitigate functional decline afterwards [2]. A key component necessary to initiate physical activity is motivation, defined as the processes that energises, orients and sustains behaviour.