Aims To determine associations between frailty and patient outcomes for participants in an
acute rehabilitation program. Methods Retrospective participant data (n= 987) was …

The projected increase in the older population over the coming decades will place a greater
demand on health-care services. Frailty is highly prevalent in the hospitalised older adult …

Almost always, an offer of hospice services is viewed as synonymous with the unavailability
of curative treatment and the inevitability of death in the near future. But, as Dr. Finucane …

Background: Frailty has an impact on outcomes in the acute care and in the community
setting but there is minimal research that examines frailty in the geriatric rehabilitation …

Older people represent the fastest growing sector of the population with dramatic increases
predicted in the very old. In the UK, the proportion aged 85 years and over is expected to …

Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study. The FRAIL scale was utilised to screen 560
older adults who were admitted to a community hospital for rehabilitation. Data were …

The concept of frailty usually evokes an image of an older person barely able to stand and/or
laboriously walking with an assistive device across the room of an extended care facility …

Background/Aims: Frailty is highly prevalent in hospitalised older adults and is a predictor of
dependency, length of stay, institutionalisation and mortality. The concept of frailty and its …

Objective To summarise frailty measures and outcomes reported in trials involving frail older
inpatients. Methods Databases were searched for randomised controlled trials enrolling frail …

Objective, Design, Measurements: We assessed the correlations of the Frailty Instrument for
primary care of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE-FI on …