Frailty is an important factor determining a higher risk of adverse health outcomes in older
adults. Although scientific community in the last two decades put a lot of effort for its …

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 …

Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) is a multidisciplinary diagnostic and treatment
process that identifies medical, psychosocial, and functional capabilities of older adults to …

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 …

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 …

Frailty is a complex and heterogeneous clinical syndrome. Cognitive frailty has been
considered as a subtype of frailty. In this study, we refine the definition of cognitive frailty …

Background Diabetes and hypertension are common in older adults and represent
established risk factors for frailty. Frailty is a multidimensional condition due to reserve loss …

Background Frailty is widely recognised as a distinct multifactorial clinical syndrome that
implies vulnerability. The links between frailty and adverse outcomes such as death and …

Frailty is a geriatric syndrome characterised by a vulnerability status associated with
declining function of multiple physiological systems and loss of physiological reserves. Two …

Background Frailty is a measure of physiologic reserve associated with increased
vulnerability to adverse outcomes following surgery in older adults. The 'accumulating …