Background Guidelines recommend routine frailty screening for all hospitalised older adults
to inform care decisions, based mainly on studies in elective or speciality-specific settings …

Untangling the interdependency of infections, immunity and frailty may help to clarify their
roles in the maintenance of health in aging individuals, and the recent COVID-19 pandemic …

Aims Frailty, characterized by loss of homeostatic reserves and increased vulnerability to
physiological decompensation, results from an aggregation of insults across multiple organ …

Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been a pandemic worldwide.
Old age and underlying illnesses are associated with poor prognosis among COVID-19 …

Background: Heart failure (HF) is a leading cause of hospitalization in older adults. Medicare
data have been used to assess HF outcomes. However, the validity of ICD-10 diagnosis …

Background Diagnosis and screening of frailty, a condition characterized by an increased
vulnerability to adverse outcomes of COVID-19, has emerged as an essential clinical tool …

Background and Purpose: Conditions associated with frailty are common in people
experiencing stroke and may explain differences in outcomes. We assessed associations …

Background/objective Emergency department (ED) visits have declined while excess
mortality, not attributable to COVID‐19, has grown. It is not known whether older adults are …

Introduction We aimed to describe the distribution of excess mortality (EM) during the first
weeks of the COVID-19 outbreak in the Stockholm Region, Sweden, according to age, sex …

As of now, studies on COVID‐19 have consistently shown that older age and comorbidity
are major risk factors for adverse outcomes and mortality [1–3]. However, it is unknown …