Objectives A significant proportion of geriatric patients experience suboptimal outcomes
following episodes of emergency department (ED) care. Risk stratification screening …

Locomotive syndrome is a condition of reduced mobility due to impairment of locomotive
organs. Since upright bipedal walking involves minutely controlled movement patterns …

Background older adults are frequent users of emergency services and demonstrate high
rates of adverse outcomes following emergency care. Objective to perform a systematic …

Frailty in older people is associated with a vulnerability to adverse events. While ageing is
associated with a loss of physiological reserves, identifying those with the syndrome of frailty …

Background The objective of this study is to identify and review screening tools for frailty in
older adults admitted to inpatient hospital care with respect to their validity, reliability and …

Background: The identification of patients at high risk for adverse outcomes [death,
unplanned readmission to emergency department (ED)/hospital, functional decline] plays an …

Background Older adults are the most frequent users of emergency services.
Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) can help identify high-risk older adults at an …

In using a patient-centered approach, neither a clinician nor a prognostic score can predict
with absolute certainty how well a patient will do or how long he will live; however, validated …

An early detection of functional decline with age is important to start interventions at an early
state and to prolong the functional fitness. In order to assure such an early detection …

Functional decline is an insidious‐onset manifestation of aging, which can be overlooked in
its early stages. Current screening measures for incipient functional decline are generally …