Checking for frailty and treating it should be top priorities when providing healthcare and health planning for older adults, according to a report published Aug. 7 in the New England Journal of ...

A recent study from Japan demonstrates that simple frailty screening programs can effectively identify older adults who likely will need long-term care services within two years. Researchers in Kobe ...

In a study published online by JAMA Surgery, Daniel E. Hall, M.D., M.Div., M.H.Sc., of the Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System and University of Pittsburgh, and colleagues examined the ...

Frailty and vulnerability screening tools used in emergency departments (EDs) had high sensitivity but low specificity for predicting adverse outcomes among older adults, limiting their standalone ...

The Johns Hopkins Hope at Hopkins Clinic: Supporting the comprehensive needs of individuals with metastatic breast cancer. Planning an enhanced telemedicine program for prostate cancer care: A ...

Although older patients with ATTR-CA were found to have a high prevalence of frailty, they were considered independent based on ADL scores, a potentially—and seriously misleading—finding. Little ...

Frailty is an age-related state of physiological decline and is a strong predictor of disability and mortality. Researchers are trying to improve our understanding of the biology of frailty and to ...

An international collaboration of researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine, Michigan State University, the University of Iowa, New York University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and multiple ...

Doctor and patient Screening for frailty may aid risk stratification, investigator suggested. Both pre-frail and frail patients with nondialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease (CKD) have increased ...

Frailty increased during the first year after the initiation of dialysis in patients with end-stage kidney disease. Pre-dialysis frailty was associated with an increased risk for hospitalisation, and ...