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- Dictionaryfrail/freɪl/
adjective
- 1. (of a person) weak and delicate: "his small, frail body" Similar Opposite
noun
- 1. a woman. informal, dated US
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2 days ago · With the overlap in the features of sarcopenia and frailty, it follows that the prevalence of these syndromes follows similar patterns. Prevalence estimates vary with the exact definition used, but the prevalence of sarcopenia in one cohort with a mean age of 67 years was found to be 6.5%, rising to 21% in another cohort aged 85 years.
2 days ago · A patient who is classified as frail is at high risk of post-surgical complications, nursing home admission, and of death. An assessment of patient frailty provides a more accurate picture of the patient's individual vulnerability than age and multimorbidity alone, and is therefore a useful aid in making clinical decisions in hospitals.
- Magnhild Skråmestø Dejgaard, Siri Rostoft
- 2021
2 days ago · Introduction. Sarcopenia describes an accelerated loss of skeletal muscle, manifesting as a combination of low muscle strength and low muscle mass. Frailty can be described as a collective deterioration in multiple body systems, leading to a reduced ability to maintain homeostasis and respond to physiological stresses placed upon the body.
2 days ago · Older adults living with frailty are a growing population that will increasingly present to the emergency department (ED). This is a population that is at increased risk of adverse health outcomes and most EDs are not designed with their needs in mind. Instead of characterizing patients based on chronologic age or existing triage tools, frailty assessment offers an accurate, feasible, and patient-centered approach to improving care, and should be performed in the ED.
2 days ago · Background Early identification of frail patients and early interventional treatment can minimize the frailty-related medical burden. This study investigated the use of machine learning (ML) to detect frailty in hospitalized older adults with acute illnesses. Methods We enrolled inpatients of the geriatric medicine ward at Taichung veterans general hospital between 2012 and 2022. We compared four ML models including logistic regression, random forest (RF), extreme gradient boosting, and ...
6 days ago · Frailty and dementia are “closely linked,” explain Song and colleagues in a recent article published in JAMDA. In their study of more than 29,000 nursing home residents, the researchers found that more than half registered as frail on the frailty index (FI). Furthermore, increasing frailty correlates to higher risk of mortality, they noted.
2 days ago · The level of care receipt is proportionally higher among frail and prefrail than robust older people: 6.4% and 47.6% of the prefrail and frail respondents received high levels of care, respectively. Around a fifth (20.9%) of respondents with prefrailty received low levels of care, while 36.0% of those with frailty had low levels of care.
