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 ...

Official Title Validation Study for a Frailty Self Assessment Tool in Retirees Aged 70 and Over Brief Summary The number of elderly is increasing throughout of the world. Aging is associated with ...

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

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 ...

The frailty determination of the Adjusted Clinical Groups“diagnoses based predictive model identified frail elders with moderate success compared with a validated screening questionnaire. To determine ...

The Clinical Frailty Scale assessment can be performed in less than a minute and indicates likelihood of post-surgical mortality and loss of independence. Prior to vascular surgery, an easy nine-point ...

A number of frail, older hospital patients in the UK who are either malnourished or at risk of malnutrition may currently go unreported, according to the findings of a new clinical study. The research ...

A study of patients hospitalized for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation found that exclusively using the population-based Hospital Frailty Risk Score tool to assess for frailty ...

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 ...