Frailty is associated with reduced cardiac rehabilitation use in Medicare patients, despite these individuals deriving the greatest mortality benefit.

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Frailty was associated with loosening, infection, instability, longer length of stay, readmission and increased ...

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

The Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) offers a practical alternative: a 9-point, bedside, visually assessed tool that can be completed in minutes. However, key questions remain—how closely this ...

Frailty was tied to a higher risk of future dementia in older adults. Trajectories rose more rapidly 4 to 9 years before dementia onset. The analysis included 30,000 participants in the U.S. and U.K.

A home-based virtual reality rehabilitation intervention improved frailty scores, a new study shows. Researchers evaluated a virtual reality technology for rehabilitation in 70 prefrail and frail ...