In Vietnamese outpatients aged 60 years and older, frailty strongly predicted falls in the prior year, with adjusted odds ...

A new study classifies frailty in older people, coming up with two subtypes. The classification may further help clinicians manage frailty and deliver more customized care. The study evaluated the ...

BACKGROUND: Frailty is a state of vulnerability to diverse stressors. We assessed the impact of frailty on outcomes after discharge in older surgical patients. METHODS: We prospectively followed ...

Patients with heart failure who had worse clinical frailty scores at discharge were also at higher risk of death within the next 2 years. Frailty is closely linked to adverse outcomes in older adults, ...

A recent New York Times article [1] focuses on a surgeon who uses a frailty scale to help him determine the appropriateness of surgery for his elderly patients. The belief is that older adults with ...

Claire Dempsey has cerebral palsy and her father Chris believes use of the frailty index might have helped her sooner Researchers at a Scottish university have discovered a measure used to assess the ...

Social isolation, living in a neighborhood with poor cleanliness, and lower perceived control over financial situations can predict early death in those aged 65 years and older. The corresponding ...

Elderly patients undergoing orthopaedic surgery represent a rapidly expanding and high-risk group, with outcomes strongly influenced by pre-existing ...

Frailty is a term which describes a loss of function as a human being over a range of physiological parameters, both physical and emotional, along with an increased susceptibility to stressful ...