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14 hours ago · Frailty is a common and clinically significant grouping of symptoms that occurs in aging and older adults. These symptoms can include decreased physical abilities such as walking, excessive fatigue, and weight and muscle loss leading to declined physical status. In addition, frailty encompasses a decline in both overall physical function and ...
Jul 22, 2024 · Frailty, medical condition that occurs as a result of aging-associated declines in energy, strength, and function that increase a person’s vulnerability to stress and disease. Frailty typically is seen in persons age 65 and older, its prevalence increasing with age.
Frailty is a multidimensional geriatric syndrome characterised by a decline of physical and cognitive reserves that leads to increased vulnerability. Frailty increases with age and is associated with falls, longer stays in hospital, difficulty recovering from illness and surgery, and mortality.
5 days ago · Frailty has become an additional vital sign in caring for and studying older patients with CVD. However, significant challenges in studying frailty remain due to a lack of consensus on the definition and numerous instruments used in practice, resulting in inconsistency and irreproducibility of some of these studies.
Jul 17, 2024 · Home. Older people in hospital. Identifying frailty. When screening and assessing for frailty, we should consider a person’s physical performance, nutritional status, cognition and mental health and be proactive in providing preventative and tailored care when the person is in hospital.
Jul 5, 2024 · Frailty, characterized by increased vulnerability to stressors, is emerging as a key factor affecting outcomes in older adults and stroke patients. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of frailty in acute stroke patients and assess its association with mortality and poor functional outcome.
Jul 11, 2024 · Moreover, worsening categorial frailty status was associated with increased odds of OI, with a 1.55-fold, 2.28-fold, and 4.67-fold greater odds for individuals with prefrailty, frailty, and the most frailty, respectively, compared with robust individuals.
