Older adults are a highly heterogeneous group with variable health and functional life
courses. Frailty has received increasing scientific attention as a potential explanation of the …

Objectives To systematically compare and pool the prevalence of frailty, including prefrailty,
reported in community‐dwelling older people overall and according to sex, age, and …

Aim The K ihon Checklist is extensively used in J apan to identify elderly persons who are at
risk of requiring support/care. We aimed to determine whether or not the K ihon Checklist …

Based on a systematic literature review, the screening tools task force of SIOG states that
screening tools do not replace geriatric assessment in older cancer patients. However, in a …

Objectives To operationalize frailty using eight scales and to compare their content validity,
feasibility, prevalence estimates of frailty, and ability to predict all‐cause mortality. Design …

Background: frailty is a state of vulnerability to adverse outcomes. Routine identification of
frailty is recommended in international guidance. This systematic review investigates the …

Frailty is the most problematic expression of population ageing. It is a state of vulnerability to
poor resolution of homoeostasis after a stressor event and is a consequence of cumulative …

OBJECTIVES: To assess the reliability, construct validity, and predictive (concurrent) validity
of the Tilburg Frailty Indicator (TFI), a self-report questionnaire for measuring frailty in older …

Frailty is one of the greatest challenges for healthcare professionals. The level of frailty
depends on several interrelated factors and can change over time while different …

Background: There is no single generally accepted clinical definition of frailty. Previously
developed tools to assess frailty that have been shown to be predictive of death or need for …