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 ...

A new prospective study shows that the Hopkins Frailty Score (HFS) can help predict preoperatively which patients are at greater risk of developing complications after surgery. These results were ...

SAN FRANCISCO: A simplified frailty index created by surgeons at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Mich., is a reliable tool for assessing risk of mortality and serious ...

A study of patients hospitalized for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation found that exclusively using the population-based Hospital Frailty Risk Score tool to assess for frailty ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jamie Hopkins of Bryn Mawr Trust covers retirement and estate planning Too often people lump frailty risk in with long-term care ...

A combination of physical frailty and depression is associated with a substantially increased risk for subsequent dementia, exceeding the risk linked to either condition alone. In a cohort study of ...

Older adults with unfavorable social determinants of health (SDoH) were significantly associated with an increased risk of frailty, with a more visible effect on those aged 65-75. That is according to ...