The degree of frailty as a translational measure of health in aging

SE Howlett, AD Rutenberg, K Rockwood - Nature Aging, 2021 - nature.com
Frailty is a multiply determined, age-related state of increased risk for adverse health
outcomes. We review how the degree of frailty conditions the development of late-life …

Prevalence of frailty and prefrailty among community-dwelling older adults in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

DD Siriwardhana, S Hardoon, G Rait… - BMJ open, 2018 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective To systematically review the research conducted on prevalence of frailty and
prefrailty among community-dwelling older adults in low-income and middle-income …

Social frailty in older adults: a scoping review

S Bunt, N Steverink, J Olthof… - European journal of …, 2017 - Springer
Social frailty is a rather unexplored concept. In this paper, the concept of social frailty among
older people is explored utilizing a scoping review. In the first stage, 42 studies related to …

Prevalence of frailty at population level in European ADVANTAGE Joint Action Member States: a systematic review and meta-analysis

R O'Caoimh, L Galluzzo, Á Rodríguez-Laso… - Annali dell'Istituto …, 2018 - annali.iss.it
Introduction. Although frailty is common among community-dwelling older adults, its
prevalence in Europe and how this varies between countries is unclear. Methods. A …

Operationalization of frailty using eight commonly used scales and comparison of their ability to predict all‐cause mortality

O Theou, TD Brothers, A Mitnitski… - Journal of the …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Epidemiology of frailty in older people

S Rohrmann - Frailty and cardiovascular diseases: Research into an …, 2020 - Springer
Frailty is a complex of symptoms that is characterized by impaired stress tolerance due to a
decline in the functionality of different organs. Due to its multifactorial aetiology, several …

Agreement between 35 published frailty scores in the general population

GA Aguayo, AF Donneau, MT Vaillant… - American journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
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 …

[图书][B] Rethinking old age: Theorising the fourth age

P Higgs, C Gilleard - 2017 - books.google.com
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 …

A clinical frailty index in aging mice: comparisons with frailty index data in humans

JC Whitehead, BA Hildebrand, M Sun… - … Series A: Biomedical …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We previously quantified frailty in aged mice with frailty index (FI) that used specialized
equipment to measure health parameters. Here we developed a simplified, noninvasive …

The association between frailty and severe disease among COVID-19 patients aged over 60 years in China: a prospective cohort study

Y Ma, L Hou, X Yang, Z Huang, X Yang, N Zhao, M He… - BMC medicine, 2020 - Springer
Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been a pandemic worldwide.
Old age and underlying illnesses are associated with poor prognosis among COVID-19 …