Among the total systemic sclerosis cohort, 14% of individuals were categorized as frail and 53% as prefrail, with frailty status linked to an increased risk for mortality.

The Hospital Frailty Risk Score (HFRS) helps identify older patients (aged 75 and over) who may be frail and more likely to ...

In related news, a study published the same day in BMC Geriatrics found that the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) was effective at predicting when a person may die or be rehospitalized.

The tool measured patient frailty, an aging-related syndrome, by integrating the health records of more than 500,000 individuals collected across multiple hospitals at Mass General Brigham.

You can’t stop the ageing process. But while we’re all getting older, not everyone who ages will necessarily become frail. Ageing and frailty are closely related, but they’re not the same thing.

John Swinney has finally accepted there is a crisis in Scotland's NHS. But will stationing 'frailty teams' at the front door of Scotland's A&E departments solve the problem? The term 'frailty ...

Having worked as a nurse in emergency for many years, currently in geriatric emergency, I find our inability as nurses to care for our frail seniors as they should be cared for deeply disturbing.

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Special “frailty teams” will be placed at the front door of every accident-and-emergency (A&E) department in Scotland by this summer to redirect elderly people away from busy waiting rooms.