Background Frailty is a common geriatric condition, well known to contribute to morbidity
and mortality. What is not yet well articulated in the literature is the health service use of frail …

Introduction To examine the impact of frailty on medical and social care utilisation among the
Irish community-dwelling older population to inform strategies of integrated care for older …

Objectives Studies conducted among older people have shown that frailty is a common
condition associated with an array of adverse outcomes. The aims of this study were to …

Background Frailty is frequently found to be associated with increased healthcare utilisation
in western countries, but little is known in Asian population. This study was conducted to …

Background Frailty, a syndrome resulting in heightened risk of negative outcomes for older
adults, is increasing across the globe. However, little is known about the health service …

Objectives Little is known about frailty and its impact on health-care systems. Using large-
scale population health surveillance data, this study determined the prevalence of frailty, its …

Background routine frailty identification and management is national policy in England, but
there remains a lack of evidence on the impact of frailty on healthcare resource use. We …

Background Characterizing the prevalence and distribution of frailty within a population can
help guide decision-making and policy development by identifying health service resource …

Background: frailty is a concept used to describe older people at high risk of adverse
outcomes, including falls, functional decline, hospital or nursing home admission and death …

Background older people with frailty are particularly high users of healthcare services,
however a lack of standardised recording of frailty in different healthcare electronic datasets …