ReviewGeriatrics (Basel, Switzerland)2017
A Review of Frailty Syndrome and Its Physical, Cognitive and Emotional Domains in the Elderly.
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- Current evidence on the impact of medication optimization or pharmacological interventions on frailty or aspects of frailty: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2021Pooled it
- Frailty assessment in kidney transplantation: insights from a European survey.Clinical kidney journal · 2026Article
- Doctors' and Pharmacists' knowledge, skills, and perception of mental frailty in older adults: a scoping review.BMC primary care · 2026Article
- The role of NLRP3 neuroinflammation in cognitive frailty diversity during aging and after LPS administration in mice.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Association between comprehensive geriatric assessment and Days Alive and Out of Hospital at 30 Days After Cardiac Surgery in Older Patients.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2025Observational
- Development of a psychological frailty index: results from the China health and retirement longitudinal study.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Predicting Multiple Outcomes Associated with Frailty based on Imbalanced Multi-label Classification.Journal of healthcare informatics research · 2024Article
- The Australian Frailty Network: Development of a consumer-focussed national response to frailty.Australasian journal on ageing · 2024Article
- Depression Earlier on in Life Predicts Frailty at 50 Years: Evidence from the 1958 British Birth Cohort Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- The burden of non-disabled frailty and its associated factors among older adults in Bangladesh.PloS one · 2023Article
- Wealth disparity and frailty among community-dwelling older adults in India.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Usefulness of the Modified Videofluoroscopic Dysphagia Scale in Determining the Allowance of Oral Feeding in Patients with Dysphagia Due to Deconditioning or Frailty.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Frailty and functional dependence in older population: lessons from the FREEDOM Limousin - Nouvelle Aquitaine Cohort Study.BMC geriatrics · 2022Observational
- An age-independent hospital record-based frailty score correlates with adverse outcomes after heart surgery and increased health care costs.JTCVS open · 2021Article
- Phybrata Sensors and Machine Learning for Enhanced Neurophysiological Diagnosis and Treatment.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Health Literacy and Frailty in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Evidence from a Nationwide Cohort Study in South Korea.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Pathways among Frailty, Health Literacy, Acculturation, and Social Support of Middle-Aged and Older Korean Immigrants in the USA.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Frailty Syndrome and Oxidative Stress as Possible Links Between Age-Related Hearing Loss and Alzheimer's Disease.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Review
- The prevalence of cognitive frailty and pre-frailty among older people in Bangkok metropolitan area: a multicenter study of hospital-based outpatient clinics.Journal of frailty, sarcopenia and falls · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundFrailty, a very important complication of increasing age, is a well-recognised concept although it has not been accurately measured in the clinical setting. The aim of this literature review is to summarise commonly used frailty screening tools, and to describe how new measurement methods have been developed recently.
methodsSeveral frailty measurement tools including the most cited and newly developed scales have been described in this review. We searched the MEDLINE using the search terms; "frailty score, scale, tool, instrument, index, phenotype" and then summarised selected tools for physical, cognitive, emotional and co-morbidity domains.
resultsThe most cited frailty measurement methods developed from 1999 to 2005 are primarily criteria for physical frailty (e.g., frailty phenotype). More recently developed tools (e.g., triad of impairment and multidimensional frailty score) consider cognitive and emotional domains in addition to physical deficit in measuring frailty. Co-morbidity has also been considered as a domain of frailty in several measurement tools.
conclusionAlthough frailty tools have traditionally assessed physical capability, cognitive and emotional impairment often co-exist in older adults and may have shared origins. Therefore, newer tools which provide a composite measure of frailty may be more relevant for future use.
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