Official Title Validation Study for a Frailty Self Assessment Tool in Retirees Aged 70 and Over Brief Summary The number of elderly is increasing throughout of the world. Aging is associated with ...

Adding frailty assessment to conventional risk scores improves the ability to predict 1-year mortality after TAVR, with the odds of death increasing alongside worsening degrees of frailty, according ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers successfully integrated a physical frailty assessment into routine screening for kidney transplant ...

Signs of frailty, and the risks it brings, could be identified in young and old people alike through a new assessment developed in a study led by researchers at the University of Strathclyde.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Although evidence suggests that adults with psychiatric disorders have an increased risk for becoming frail, ...

Individuals who meet at least one of the criteria for physical frailty are at higher risk of also developing depression, a new Yale study finds. The findings — which also include insights into the ...

Dear Doctors: Our dad is 82 years old and may need to get a pacemaker. My brother and I recently read that surgery is hard on older people, both physically and mentally. Is getting a pacemaker going ...

As our population ages and our medical care improves, we have increasing numbers of frail patients. The frail require gentler, longer, and frequently more expensive care. A new study looks at these ...

University of Alberta provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Alberta provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. In the next 10 years, the number of ...