One of the leading causes of morbidity and premature mortality in older people is frailty.
Frailty occurs when multiple physiological systems decline, to the extent that an individual's …

Frailty syndrome is prevalent among hospitalized older adults as are the occurrence of
adverse outcomes. This systematic review and meta-analysis investigated whether frailty in …

Aims frailty is proposed as a summative measure of health status and marker of individual
vulnerability. We aimed to investigate the discriminative capacity of a frailty index (FI) …

In elderly populations, frailty is associated with higher mortality risk. Although many frailty
scores (FS) have been proposed, no single score is considered the gold standard. We …

An operational definition of frailty is important for clinical care, research, and policy planning.
The literature on the clinical definitions, screening tools, and severity measures of frailty …

The two most commonly employed frailty measures are the frailty phenotype and the frailty
index. We compared them to examine whether they demonstrated common characteristics of …

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the prevalence and 10‐year outcomes of frailty in older adults in
relation to deficit accumulation. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING: The National …

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 …

Demonstrations that grip strength has predictive power in relation to a range of health
conditions—even when these are assessed decades later—has motivated claims that hand …

Background A frailty paradigm would be useful in primary care to identify older people at
risk, but appropriate metrics at that level are lacking. We created and validated a simple …