“…Although a dedicated multidisciplinary care is required for these frail patients, optimization of surgical technique is important and may lead to better postoperative outcomes.…”
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“…Limiting protection measures and vaccination boosters to elderly and frail persons seems justified.…”
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“…Our approach estimates how well a PAS performs in identifying the “who but for” population of the Medicaid home and community-based services waiver programs for the frail elderly. The methodology's usefulness in screen revision is also illustrated.…”
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“…The frailty status was evaluated via a 46-item frailty index (FI) and the FRAIL scale, respectively. Frailty was identified if FI >0.21 or FRAIL score ≥3. …”
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“…For each additional year of age and each additional drug consumed, the probability of being frail increased 10% and 30%, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: Utilization of dental services and self-perception of oral health were associated with a higher probability of being frail.…”
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“…Frail individuals also had a greater number of comorbidities (OR 6.6, 95% CI, 4.4-9.9) and worse functional capacity (OR 3.8, 95% CI, 2.9-5). …”
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“…METHODS: Eighteen adults with a mean age of 54 years, as well as sixteen pre-frail and thirteen frail patients with mean ages of 78 and 85 years, respectively, performed the 30-s CST while threir trunk movements were measured by a sensor-unit at vertebra L3. …”
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“…Percent agreement between perceived and measured frailty was poor (nephrologist, NP, and patient: 64.1%, 67.0%, and 55.5%). Among non-frail participants, 34.4%, 30.0%, and 31.6% were perceived as frail by a nephrologist, NP, or themselves. …”
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“…At the National Healthcare Group, innovative projects to address the needs of the frail elderly have been developed in the areas of: (a) admission avoidance through joint initiatives with long-term care facilities, nurse-led geriatric assessment at the emergency department and geriatric assessment clinics; (b) inpatient care, such as the Framework for Inpatient care of the Frail Elderly, orthogeriatric services, and geriatric surgical services; and (c) discharge to care, involving community transitional care teams and the development of community infrastructure for post-discharge support; and an appropriate transition to EoL care. …”
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“…The proportion of robust, pre-frail and frail patients was 11.02% (n = 42), 59.58% (n = 227) and 29.40% (n = 112) respectively. …”
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“…Physical frailty was assessed with the Fried frailty criteria (not frail, pre‐frail, and frail). The following geriatric domains were assessed: physical function, nutrition, polypharmacy, cognition, and dependency in activities of daily living. …”
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“…CONCLUSIONS: HRs indicated that the C & RC service helped to prevent care home admissions for moderately and severely frail individuals. The HRs generally increased with follow-up duration.…”
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“…After adjusting for age, sex, and multimorbidity, participants with declines in IC were more likely to be older, frail, and disabled. They also had worse physical, mental, and overall health. …”
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“…Based on the frailty index developed by Fried, we compared the frail and non-frail groups. Poor physical performance assessed with the short physical performance battery score of < 9 is considered frailty. …”
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“…Change in overall SPPB points following treatment correlated with the decline in physical QoL for both groups (p < 0.05) as well as transition frail status in the CCRT group (p < 0.001) with a trend in the radiation group (p = 0.08). …”
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“…While comorbidities were more frequent in frail patients (by definition), body mass index was not different across frailty classes. …”
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“…RESULTS: Among 5,003 critical AMI patients, 2,176 were non-frail (43.5%), 2,355 were pre-frail (47.1%), and 472 were frail (9.4%). …”
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“…Frailty was measured using the VA frailty index, categorized as robust (0–<0.1), pre-frail (≥0.1–<0.21) and frail (≥0.21). RESULTS: A total of 58,604 patients (age:58.9±17.0, median:61, IQR:45–72; 87.5%men; 68.1%white; 1.3%African American, 8.3%Hispanic) were included in the study. …”
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