Frailty Medical Diagnosis

Frailty: Evaluation and Management | AAFP

https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2021/0215/p219.html

Frailty may initially be overlooked or incorrectly identified as part of the normal aging process because of the variable nature of the presentation and diagnosis. Symptoms include...

UpToDate

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Frailty is most often defined as an aging-related syndrome of physiological decline, characterized by marked vulnerability to adverse health outcomes. Frail …

Clinical Frailty Scale - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK559009/

Frailty is a multidimensional geriatric syndrome characterized by an increased vulnerability to various stressors. …

Frailty syndrome - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frailty_syndrome

Frailty: Evaluation and Management - PubMed

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Frailty may initially be overlooked or incorrectly identified as part of the normal aging process because of the variable nature of the presentation and diagnosis. …

Approaches to the diagnosis and prevention of frailty

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32356135/

Approximately a quarter of individuals aged > 85 years are living with frailty and as such the identification of those who are frail is a public health priority. Given that the …

Frailty as a Terminal Illness | AAFP

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Research Criteria for Frailty from the Cardiovascular Health Study: Weight loss (at least 5% of body weight in past year) Exhaustion (positive response to questions about effort …

Frailty: What Is It? - PubMed

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Shifting to a construct as frailty to biologically define the perimeter of action for geriatric medicine will probably concur at modernizing the old way of practicing medicine. In this …

Frailty Is a Medical Condition, Not an Inevitable Result of …

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It's called frailty. There have always been frail people, but only in recent years has the term "frailty" become a medical diagnosis, defined by specific symptoms …

[Diagnosis and Treatment of Physical Frailty] - PubMed

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28114718/

Physical frailty is a physiological syndrome of older people. It is characterized by a reduced reserve, a reduced stressor resistance, and vulnerability to negative health outcomes. …