A recent study from Japan demonstrates that simple frailty screening programs can effectively identify older adults who likely will need long-term care services within two years. Researchers in Kobe ...

Checking for frailty and treating it should be top priorities when providing healthcare and health planning for older adults, according to a report published Aug. 7 in the New England Journal of ...

Frailty and vulnerability screening tools used in emergency departments (EDs) had high sensitivity but low specificity for predicting adverse outcomes among older adults, limiting their standalone ...

The Johns Hopkins Hope at Hopkins Clinic: Supporting the comprehensive needs of individuals with metastatic breast cancer. Planning an enhanced telemedicine program for prostate cancer care: A ...

An international collaboration of researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine, Michigan State University, the University of Iowa, New York University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and multiple ...

In a study published online by JAMA Surgery, Daniel E. Hall, M.D., M.Div., M.H.Sc., of the Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System and University of Pittsburgh, and colleagues examined the ...

Nearly three-quarters of UK hospitals are not routinely screening older surgical patients for frailty, despite known risks of adverse outcomes. A study by the Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA) and ...

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 ...

Doctor and patient Screening for frailty may aid risk stratification, investigator suggested. Both pre-frail and frail patients with nondialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease (CKD) have increased ...