Skip to main content

Autonomy Preservation Strategies

Meaning

These are comprehensive, multi-faceted clinical and lifestyle protocols designed to proactively maintain cognitive function, physical mobility, and executive decision-making capacity, ensuring an individual retains independence and self-governance into advanced age. The focus extends beyond simply extending life to ensuring the quality of the extended years is characterized by robust mental and physical self-sufficiency. Clinicians employ these strategies to counteract the physiological and neurological decline that typically compromises late-life autonomy. Successful implementation secures a higher quality of life and sustained independence.