Measuring frailty using the Frailty Index (FI) can be a predictor of in-hospital complications, need for discharge to a skilled nursing facility or in-hospital death in older patients following ...

Frailty was calculated via a frailty index (FI) using 49 variables in the NHANES dataset related to signs, symptoms, disabilities, diseases and laboratory measurements. Results found that frailty was ...

Frailty accelerated four to nine years before dementia started, and it was positively linked with the risk for dementia, according to four studies conducted in the United States and the United Kingdom ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Frailty is hard to define and hard to distinguish from the effects of illness, injury, and medical interventions, but the frailty of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) can have ...