A Dyadic e-Health System on Enhancing Healthy Lifestyles of Older Adults With Sarcopenia

"A 12-week intervention consisting of a 4-weekly group-based, face-to-face supervised sessions, and an 8-week self-management phase will be arranged to the experimental group. The features of the System will be introduced to the users and their family members in the first two face-to-face sessions. The users and their family members will then be able to start using the System with the mobile app. In the other two sessions, all participants in the experimental group will learn how to accurately complete their dietary records in the e-Health System and will be provided with nutritional advice.~For the 8-week self-management phase, the participants will be recommended to follow the lifestyle interventions to relieve their problems related to sarcopenia. The participants are required to fill in their dietary record in the e-Health System every day, and will be provided with nutritional advice to improve high-quality protein and leucine intake, which is essential for muscle building."

For the 8-week self-management phase, the participants will be recommended to follow the lifestyle interventions to relieve their problems related to sarcopenia. The participants in the experimental group will also be suggested to continually practise exercise training at home for 30 minutes at least 5 times per week. Participants can review the self-learning exercise videos embedded in the System. The exercise trainings include: a) progressive resistance training to improve muscle strength; and b) brisk walking exercise to maintain walkability.