Dementia is an increasingly common disease in the aging population, and the numbers are
expected to rise exponentially in coming years. Therefore, there is a critical need to
potentially individualize new strategies able to prevent and to slow down the progression of
predementia and dementia syndromes. Despite a substantial increase in the
epidemiological and clinical evidence on frailty, there is no consensus on its definition or on
what criteria should be used to identify older individuals with frailty. Frailty appears to be a …