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Treating frailty-a practical guide

Frailty is a common syndrome that is associated with vulnerability to poor health outcomes. Frail older people have increased risk of morbidity, institutionalization and death, resulting in burden to individuals, their families, health care services and society. Assessment and treatment of the frail...

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Autores principales: Fairhall, Nicola, Langron, Colleen, Sherrington, Catherine, Lord, Stephen R, Kurrle, Susan E, Lockwood, Keri, Monaghan, Noeline, Aggar, Christina, Gill, Liz, Cameron, Ian D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3146844/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21733149
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-9-83
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author Fairhall, Nicola
Langron, Colleen
Sherrington, Catherine
Lord, Stephen R
Kurrle, Susan E
Lockwood, Keri
Monaghan, Noeline
Aggar, Christina
Gill, Liz
Cameron, Ian D
author_facet Fairhall, Nicola
Langron, Colleen
Sherrington, Catherine
Lord, Stephen R
Kurrle, Susan E
Lockwood, Keri
Monaghan, Noeline
Aggar, Christina
Gill, Liz
Cameron, Ian D
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description Frailty is a common syndrome that is associated with vulnerability to poor health outcomes. Frail older people have increased risk of morbidity, institutionalization and death, resulting in burden to individuals, their families, health care services and society. Assessment and treatment of the frail individual provide many challenges to clinicians working with older people. Despite frailty being increasingly recognized in the literature, there is a paucity of direct evidence to guide interventions to reduce frailty. In this paper we review methods for identification of frailty in the clinical setting, propose a model for assessment of the frail older person and summarize the current best evidence for treating the frail older person. We provide an evidence-based framework that can be used to guide the diagnosis, assessment and treatment of frail older people.
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spelling pubmed-31468442011-07-31 Treating frailty-a practical guide Fairhall, Nicola Langron, Colleen Sherrington, Catherine Lord, Stephen R Kurrle, Susan E Lockwood, Keri Monaghan, Noeline Aggar, Christina Gill, Liz Cameron, Ian D BMC Med Opinion Frailty is a common syndrome that is associated with vulnerability to poor health outcomes. Frail older people have increased risk of morbidity, institutionalization and death, resulting in burden to individuals, their families, health care services and society. Assessment and treatment of the frail individual provide many challenges to clinicians working with older people. Despite frailty being increasingly recognized in the literature, there is a paucity of direct evidence to guide interventions to reduce frailty. In this paper we review methods for identification of frailty in the clinical setting, propose a model for assessment of the frail older person and summarize the current best evidence for treating the frail older person. We provide an evidence-based framework that can be used to guide the diagnosis, assessment and treatment of frail older people. BioMed Central 2011-07-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3146844/ /pubmed/21733149 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-9-83 Text en Copyright ©2011 Fairhall et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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