Background: It is common, the difficulty among health professionals to recognize the frailty
syndrome, multisystemic disease responsible for the physical, cognitive and functional …

Geriatric palliative care is provided to elderly patients, mostly in the last months of their lives.
Its procedures are directly related to the comprehensive intervention of geriatric fragility …

The concept of frailty is frequently mentioned in studies related to the elderly population.
Frailty in the elderly is considered a relevant dimension of quality of life. The concept of …

Frailty in older adults is conceptualized by clinicians as a progressive, physiologic process
marked by declines in function and physiologic reserves as well as increased vulnerability to …

Chronic diseases and frailty represent the clinical expressions of the accumulations of
biological deficits that occur with aging. However, when addressing chronic diseases, the …

The sustainability of healthcare systems worldwide is threatened by the absolute and
relative increase in the number of older persons. The traditional models of care (largely …

Chronological age alone does not determine the vulnerability or frailty of an older adult.
Frailty can, however, profoundly affect the quality of an older adult's life. Frail adults could …

This chapter provides an overview of the symptoms of frailty, the tools used to recognize and
assess older people living with frailty such as the frailty phenotype and frailty index, and …

The concept of frailty as a medically distinct syndrome has evolved based on the clinical
experience of geriatricians and is clinically well recognizable. Frailty is a nonspecific state of …

Abstract By 2020, the elderly (≥ 65-year-old) world population is projected to exceed one
billion individuals. This demographic megatrend has brought topics such as physiological …