An Osaka Metropolitan University-led research team examined the relationship between frailty and health-related hope and identified specific frailty domains affecting health-related hope in patients ...

Patients with heart failure who had worse clinical frailty scores at discharge were also at higher risk of death within the next 2 years. Frailty is closely linked to adverse outcomes in older adults, ...

The researchers proposed using the FRAIL Scale modified to include an extra item on time since completion of cancer treatment and a cut-off of 2 or higher to assess frailty in older adult cancer ...

Claire Dempsey has cerebral palsy and her father Chris believes use of the frailty index might have helped her sooner [BBC] Researchers at a Scottish university have discovered a measure used to ...

Allogeneic haematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) remains a potentially curative option for patients with high-risk haematological malignancies, albeit at the cost of substantial morbidity and ...

A new study classifies frailty in older people, coming up with two subtypes. The classification may further help clinicians manage frailty and deliver more customized care. The study evaluated the ...

Frailty increased during the first year after the initiation of dialysis in patients with end-stage kidney disease. Pre-dialysis frailty was associated with an increased risk for hospitalisation, and ...

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Getting old doesn't have to mean getting frail. A landmark trial suggests stem cells can reverse the physical decline of ageing ...

More severe frailty predicted a higher risk of UTIs. Frailty may increase the risk for urinary tract infection (UTI) in patients with diabetes and chronic kidney disease (CKD), a new study finds.