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Feb 15, 2021 · Frailty is a syndrome of growing importance among the geriatric population, occurring in 5% to 17% of older adults. 1, 2 Clinicians need to recognize the signs and symptoms of frailty as the...
Frailty is a complex age-related clinical condition characterised by a decline in physiological capacity across several organ systems, with a resultant increased susceptibility to stressors. Because of the heterogeneity of frailty in clinical presentation, it is important to have effective strategies for the delivery of care that range across ...
- Elsa Dent, Finbarr C Martin, Howard Bergman, Jean Woo, Roman Romero-Ortuno, Jeremy D Walston
- 2019
Sep 28, 2021 · Despite the lack of consensus on the definition of frailty, we believe understanding of frailty is not only important from the geriatric medicine opinion, but also is relevant to all medical specialties, as they frequently encounter elderly frail people in daily practices.
- 10.1007/s40200-021-00897-x
- 2021/12
Frailty has been viewed as a cornerstone of geriatric medicine and a platform of biological vulnerability to a host of other geriatric syndromes and adverse health outcomes. 3 Using a common frailty assessment instrument, an estimated 15% of noninstitutionalized adults in the United States are frail, 4 and global estimates of frailty range from ...
- Jeremy D. Walston, Brian Buta, Qian-Li Xue
- 10.1016/j.cger.2017.09.004
- 2018
- 2018/02
- What Do We Mean by Frailty?
- How Best Can We Care For Frail, Older Adults?
- Providing Healthcare Out of Hospital
- So, What Does This Mean For Our Frail Patients?
- Information and Resources About Frailty
- Editor’s Note
In the UK, the number of people aged 85 and over is expected to double in the next 25 years. People are not only living longer, but increasingly living with multiple medical conditions and frailty. The word frailty is often mis-used and is associated with a lot of stigma, but it is a specific clinical syndrome. Frailty describes a syndrome where th...
As a doctor who looks after frail, older adults, I think the importance of recognising frailty and managing frailty cannot be overstated. Identifying people with frailty and improving their care is understandably a priority for healthcare systems as well as being important for frail individuals and their families. Frailty screening is done automati...
As the demand on healthcare, especially for older adults, increases, this has led to a shift in focus to assess the safetyRefers to serious adverse effects, such as those that threaten life, require or prolong hospitalization, result in permanent disability, or cause birth defects.and cost-effectiveness of community-based, hospital level care. A Co...
Looking after frail, older people requires expertise in order to improve both the quantity and quality of life as much as possible. I am incredibly fortunate to be surrounded by experts from a range of backgrounds every day at work, and as a team we aim to help our patients make the best decisions for them. There is good evidence that CGA leads to ...
Here is a list of useful information for non-medical people, and healthcare professionals about frailty: 1. Dr Patricia Cantley, a Geriatrician from Scotland, has written an excellent blog The Paper Boat explaining frailty using an analogy of a paper boat on the British Geriatric Society webpage (Twitter @Trisha_the_doc) 2. The Clinical Frailty Sca...
A recent Cochrane Special Collection (July 2022) may be of interest to readers: Achieving sustainable healthcare through deprescribing of unnecessary medications: making sense of the evidence. The collection provides an overview of Cochrane Reviews that have attempted to summarize the potential benefits and harms of deprescribing specific medicatio...
Jul 20, 2020 · Frailty, which is considered to be a transition phase between healthy status and disability, is defined as a significant decline in functional reserves of multiple organ systems and the resultant extreme vulnerability to stressors, leading to a higher risk of adverse health-related outcomes.
Oct 29, 2019 · Age-related frailty is a multidimensional dynamic condition associated with adverse patient outcomes and high costs for health systems. Several interventions have been proposed to tackle frailty.
