The Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) was introduced in the second clinical examination of the Canadian Study of Health and Aging (CSHA) as a way to summarize the overall level of fitness or frailty of an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Researchers conducted focus group discussion and interviews with PLWH aged 60 and older attending HIV health check to assess perceptions of frailty and screening. The five-item FRAIL scale (which ...

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

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 ...

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 ...