The frailty syndrome is a specific geriatric topic, one of the geriatric syndromes. Because of
the geriatrization of the society this topic is becoming more and more pressing. The …

Frailty is a concept that is better than multimorbidity at identifying older people in need of
special multidimensional care. Frailty denotes a state of accelerated biological aging in …

Seit ungefähr 20 Jahren ist in Fachkreisen der Begriff Frailty bekannt. Dieser Begriff
beschreibt ein geriatrisches Syndrom, das die erhöhte „Verletzbarkeit “älterer Menschen …

The paper provides a practice-oriented overview of the main issues in geriatric medicine,
including demographic analyses, description of the frailty syndrome and an emphasis on …

Although it might appear quite ambitious to look at frailty and prevention of disability with a
so wide approach (from the biological mechanisms of frailty to novel healthcare system …

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

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 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 …

Frailty may be used as a public health indicator of aging well for projection of health and
social care resource allocation. Frailty assessments have been adopted by various medical …

Frailty, in association with aging and chronic disorders, is a key predictive factor of the
quality of life and ac-celerating aging, which contributes to disability and, therefore, has …