Healthcare systems need to adapt to better serve an aging population with complex
presentations. Frailty assessments are a potential means to address this heterogeneity in …

Background The ability of acute care providers to cope with the influx of frail older patients is
increasingly stressed, and changes need to be made to improve care provided to older …

Physicians involved in the care of medical inpatients, irrespective of their sub-specialty area,
will be responsible for the management of a significant number of older adults with complex …

Canadian healthcare is changing to include individuals living with frailty, but frailty must be
better operationalized and better framed by sound data standards and policy. Frailty results …

Frailty is a state of vulnerability resulting from cumulative decline in many physiological
systems during a lifetime. It is progressive and considered largely irreversible, but its …

Background Increasing frailty is associated with risk of mortality and functional decline in
hospitalized older adults, but there is no consensus on the best screening method for use by …

Background For healthcare systems, an ageing population poses challenges in the delivery
of equitable and effective care. Frailty assessment has the potential to improve care in the …

Objectives Data for the assessment of frailty in acutely ill hospitalized older adults remains
limited. Using the Frailty Index (FI) as “gold standard,” we compared (1) the diagnostic …

Background There is limited knowledge on the performance of different frailty scales in
clinical settings. We sought to evaluate in non‐geriatric hospital departments the feasibility …

Aim Identification of frailty in the primary care setting could be improved with the availability
of easily identifiable markers of frailty. The purpose of this article was to systematically …