
Frailty: Definition & Scores - Cleveland Clinic
2024年8月26日 · Frailty is when your body can’t get through and recover from illnesses and injuries on its own. Your body is more vulnerable with frailty, making it harder to recover from health issues. As it worsens, frailty can disable you. It can keep you from doing day-to-day tasks that are part of being self-sufficient. It can also shorten your life ...
The Frailty Syndrome: Definition and Natural History - PMC
Frailty is theoretically defined as a clinically recognizable state of increased vulnerability resulting from aging-associated decline in reserve and function across multiple physiologic systems such that the ability to cope with everyday or acute stressors is comprised.
Frailty syndrome: an overview - PMC - PubMed Central (PMC)
Frailty is a common and important geriatric syndrome characterized by age-associated declines in physiologic reserve and function across multiorgan systems, leading to increased vulnerability for adverse health outcomes. Two major frailty models have been described in the literature.
What is frailty? - Age UK
‘Frailty’ is a term that’s used a lot, but is often misunderstood. When used properly, it refers to a person’s mental and physical resilience, or their ability to bounce back and recover from events like illness and injury.
Tips to Manage Frailty in Older Adults - WebMD
2023年4月7日 · Frailty is more than just becoming slower and weaker. An older adult can be considered frail if a combination of these two things occurs: The person feels very weak, tired, and like...
Introduction to Frailty - British Geriatrics Society
2014年6月11日 · Frailty is a distinctive health state related to the ageing process in which multiple body systems gradually lose their in-built reserves. Around 10 per cent of people aged over 65 years have frailty, rising to between a quarter and a half of those aged over 85.
Frailty: Evaluation and Management - AAFP
2021年2月15日 · Frailty, which is a geriatric syndrome that affects 5% to 17% of older adults, is a state of increased vulnerability across multiple health domains that leads to adverse health outcomes....
What is frailty? - Canadian Frailty Network
Frailty is a medical condition of reduced function and health in older individuals. Getting older doesn’t necessarily mean someone is frail, but it does increase the odds of developing multiple medical conditions and frailty.
Frailty: What Is It? - PubMed
Frailty is a clinical condition characterized by an excessive vulnerability of the individual to endogenous and exogenous stressors. This status generates a high risk of developing negative health-related events.
Frailty - Medical information - BMJ Best Practice
2024年10月29日 · Frailty is a distinctive health state, that is related to the ageing process, in which multiple body systems gradually lose their in-built reserves. NHS England. Rightcare: falls and fragility fractures pathway.