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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Introduction A comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) is a multidisciplinary holistic assessment; it is recognised as the gold standard assessment for an older person at risk of frailty (British ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers successfully integrated a physical frailty assessment into routine screening for kidney transplant ...

Patients undergoing systemic anticancer treatment who are identified as frail are at a considerably increased risk for adverse outcomes, including death, toxicity, treatment intolerance, and ...