Patients are getting older while at the same time undergoing increasingly intensive treatments. This brings up the concept of physical resilience – the ability to recover and adapt after health-related stressors such as surgery or chemotherapy. Identifying physical resilience in older patients may enable more personalized treatment plans, ultimately allowing for better recovery and improved functional outcomes. The first step, however, is being able to measure physical resilience, which is the goal of the TOPFORM study.

Today, the first patient was enrolled in the TOPFORM study, which is a sub study of the TENT study, initiated by the Department of Geriatrics and Gerontology. Led by LEGend PhD candidate Jan Duin, this research uses wearable devices to monitor recovery trajectories in patients undergoing intensive medical treatments. The study aims to include around 60 patients over the next year.