ArticleAge and ageing2021
Understanding consumer perceptions of frailty screening to inform knowledge translation and health service improvements.
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- Perspectives of older adults, caregivers, healthcare providers on frailty screening in primary care: a systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis.BMC geriatrics · 2022Pooled it
- The FRAIL-NH Scale: Systematic Review of the Use, Validity and Adaptations for Frailty Screening in Nursing Homes.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2021Pooled it
- Being screened for frailty in the emergency department: the voice of patients in an exploratory qualitative study.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Exploring the views and experiences of frailty and resilience among people experiencing homelessness in Ireland: A qualitative study.PloS one · 2026Article
- Older people's perspectives on frailty screening in primary care settings - a citizens' jury study.BMC primary care · 2024Article
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- Development and Validation of a Game for Older Adults on Lifestyles and Frailty.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2024Article
- Hospital-Based Health Professionals' Perceptions of Frailty in Older People.The Gerontologist · 2024Article
- IMPAACT: IMproving the PArticipAtion of older people in policy decision-making on common health CondiTions - a study protocol.BMJ open · 2024Article
- What If the Clinical and Older Adults' Perspectives about Frailty Converge? A Call for a Mixed Conceptual Model of Frailty: A Traditional Literature Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Acceptability of physical activity signposting for pre-frail older adults: a qualitative study to inform intervention development.BMC geriatrics · 2023Article
- How transdisciplinary research teams learn to do knowledge translation (KT), and how KT in turn impacts transdisciplinary research: a realist evaluation and longitudinal case study.Health research policy and systems · 2023Article
- Higher frailty levels are associated with lower cognitive test scores in a multi-country study: evidence from the study on global ageing and adult health.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
- The Structural and Functional Correlates of Frailty in Persons With Human Immunodeficiency Virus.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2022Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectivesdespite growing support for the clinical application of frailty, including regular frailty screening for older adults, little is known about how older adults perceive frailty screening. The purpose of this study was to examine older adults' perspectives on frailty screening to inform knowledge translation and service improvements for older adults with frailty. RESEARCH
designinterpretive descriptive qualitative design.
participantsa total of 39 non-frail (18%), pre-frail (33%) and frail or very frail (49%) South Australian older adults aged 62-99 years, sampled from community, assisted living and residential aged care settings.
methodsseven focus groups were conducted and analysed by two independent investigators using inductive thematic analysis.
resultsthree themes were identified. First, older adults question the necessity and logic of an objective frailty measure. Second, older adults believe any efforts at frailty screening need to culminate in an action. Third, older adults emphasise that frailty screening needs to be conducted sensitively given negative perceptions of the term frailty and the potential adverse effects of frailty labelling. DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS: previous screening experiences and underlying beliefs about the nature of frailty as inevitable shaped openness to, and acceptance of, frailty screening. Findings correspond with previous research illuminating the lack of public awareness of frailty and the nascent stage of frailty screening implementation. Incorporating consumer perspectives, along with perspectives of other stakeholder groups when considering implementing frailty screening, is likely to impact uptake and optimise suitability-important considerations in person-centred care provision.
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