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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oral frailty screening has been part of enhanced frailty care at Serangoon Polyclinic since it opened in November. Read more ...