Frailty is a complex age-related clinical condition characterised by a decline in physiological
capacity across several organ systems, with a resultant increased susceptibility to stressors. …

Background A frailty paradigm would be useful in primary care to identify older people at risk,
but appropriate metrics at that level are lacking. We created and validated a simple …

Background: the clinical frailty scale (CFS) was validated as a predictor of adverse outcomes
in community-dwelling older people. In our hospital, the use of the CFS in emergency …

Falls are a major problem in older adults worldwide with an estimated 30% of elderly adults
over 65 years of age falling each year. The direct and indirect societal costs associated with …

Background Cocooning or shielding, ie staying at home and reducing face-to-face interaction
with other people, was an important part of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic for …

Background Recommendations for routine frailty screening in general practice are
increasing as frailty prevalence grows. In England, frailty identification became a contractual …

… association between age and the FI (females: quadratic R 2 = 0.20, P < 0.001; males: quadratic
R 2 … between the original FI and the imputed FI was extremely high (adjusted linear R 2 …

Introduction COVID-19 has caused unprecedented challenges in nursing homes. In this
scoping review, we aimed to describe factors that contributed to the spread and mortality of …

Background: Anxiety and depression are common in older people but are often missed; to
improve detection we must focus on those elderly people at risk. Frailty is a geriatric syndrome …

Aim Frail individuals may be at higher risk of death from a given acute illness severity (AIS),
but this relationship has not been studied in an English National Health Service (NHS) acute …