A new study encourages clinicians to look at frailty on a continuum instead of a black-and-white approach. Authors of the study created a new score to help them assess how strong or weak a person may ...

Patients with heart failure who had worse clinical frailty scores at discharge were also at higher risk of death within the next 2 years. Frailty is closely linked to adverse outcomes in older adults, ...

Claire Dempsey has cerebral palsy and her father Chris believes use of the frailty index might have helped her sooner [BBC] Researchers at a Scottish university have discovered a measure used to ...

The researchers proposed using the FRAIL Scale modified to include an extra item on time since completion of cancer treatment and a cut-off of 2 or higher to assess frailty in older adult cancer ...

A study of patients hospitalized for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation found that exclusively using the population-based Hospital Frailty Risk Score tool to assess for frailty ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Frailty score was associated with longer duration of mechanical ventilation and aided in identifying patients ...

Exercises such as resistance training and walking were safe and effective interventions that were associated with improved frailty scores and patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in patients with multiple ...

early-dialysis-av-fistula-graft-surgery Study findings highlight a need to implement early interventions to reduce frailty after hemodialysis initiation. Frail patients on hemodialysis have greater ...

In human medicine, the ability to measure frailty is a vital aspect of geriatric care. Doctors may recommend one treatment over another based on an elderly person’s frailty score, and nursing homes ...

Older age is highly linked to mortality in COVID-19, but a study of hospitalized patients has shown that many older, multimorbid patients can survive the disease and that degree of frailty may better ...