Official Title Validation Study for a Frailty Self Assessment Tool in Retirees Aged 70 and Over Brief Summary The number of elderly is increasing throughout of the world. Aging is associated with ...

An automated frailty assessment tool developed by researchers at Boston-based Mass General Brigham could help clinicians identify older adults at increased risk of emergency healthcare visits, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Although evidence suggests that adults with psychiatric disorders have an increased risk for becoming frail, ...

August 31, 2010 — A new assessment tool -- the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe Frailty Instrument (SHARE-FI) -- provides a reliable and practical way of assessing an elderly person's ...

Survival in myeloma is clearly being prolonged,” says Mikhael. “Whereas historically, we saw a greater impact in younger ...

Although older patients with ATTR-CA were found to have a high prevalence of frailty, they were considered independent based on ADL scores, a potentially—and seriously misleading—finding. Little ...

There are notable changes on the horizon for Homeward Health, the early-stage company that uses visual, audio and touch interactions to better gather data from patients and increase the efficiency of ...

Use of digital health tools may allow for frailty recognition to shift from a static, point-in-time evaluation to continuous, proactive surveillance, creating opportunities to intervene before overt ...

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 ...

Patients undergoing systemic anticancer treatment who are identified as frail are at a considerably increased risk for adverse outcomes, including death, toxicity, treatment intolerance, and ...