Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Although evidence suggests that adults with psychiatric disorders have an increased risk for becoming frail, ...

August 31, 2010 — A new assessment tool -- the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe Frailty Instrument (SHARE-FI) -- provides a reliable and practical way of assessing an elderly person's ...

Frailty — a clinical syndrome characterized by decreased physiological reserve and increased vulnerability to stressors — has traditionally been associated with geriatric medicine but has profound ...

Comprehensive geriatric assessment, the anchor of current geriatric consultation, is an evidence-based treatment for inpatients who are frail. Clinical studies evaluating frailty should include ...

There are notable changes on the horizon for Homeward Health, the early-stage company that uses visual, audio and touch interactions to better gather data from patients and increase the efficiency of ...

“The classification of patients according to their level of frailty allows us to adjust prevention programs and focus our limited resources on the right action for the right person” “The ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For patients with advanced chronic kidney disease, the prevalence of frailty varied widely based on the tool ...

Although older patients with ATTR-CA were found to have a high prevalence of frailty, they were considered independent based on ADL scores, a potentially—and seriously misleading—finding. Little ...

(UPDATED) The prevalence of frailty prior to cardiac surgery is high, varying widely depending on the tool used to capture it, and it’s significantly associated with a higher risk of patient-defined ...