Aims: Falls often result in soft tissue injuries, dislocations, fractures, longstanding pain and
reduced quality of life. Therefore, fall preventive programmes have been developed …

Older adults with type 2 diabetes have significantly higher incidence of falls than those
without type 2 diabetes. The devastating consequences of falls include declines in mobility …

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) …

With the aspiration for a long life now achievable for many individuals, the status of old age
as a distinct social position has become problematic. In this radical re-examination of the …

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 …

Once exceptional, a long life is now an everyday expectation for many citizens of the
prosperous nations. The consequence of this transformation in life expectancy however has …

A fragilidade apresenta elevada variabilidade na prevalência e é pouco investigada em
países em desenvolvimento. O objetivo deste estudo foi identificar a prevalência e fatores …

Falls and fall-related injuries, such as fractures, are a growing problem among older adults,
often causing longstanding pain, functional impairments, reduced quality of life and excess …

For most surgeons and many anaesthetists, patient frailty is currently the 'elephant in the
(operating) room': it is easy to spot, but is often ignored. In this paper, we discuss different …

Background There is a well‐recognised association between falls and lower urinary tract
symptoms (LUTS) in older adults, with estimates of odd ratios for falls in the presence of …