The clinical course and outcome of COVID-19 are highly variable, ranging from
asymptomatic infections to severe disease and death. Understanding the risk factors of …

One of the leading causes of morbidity and premature mortality in older people is frailty.
Frailty occurs when multiple physiological systems decline, to the extent that an individual's …

Objectives The objective of this study was to investigate the influence of the COVID-19
pandemic on physical activity (PA) and the incidence of frailty among initially non-frail older …

Social frailty is a rather unexplored concept. In this paper, the concept of social frailty among
older people is explored utilizing a sco** review. In the first stage, 42 studies related to …

Sarcopenia was originally defined as an age-associated loss of muscle mass. 1, 2 Recently
a number of European and international groups have redefined sarcopenia as being a …

The frailty syndrome has recently attracted attention of the scientific community and public
health organizations as precursor and contributor of age-related conditions (particularly …

The last several years have seen increasing interest in understanding cachexia, muscle
wasting, and physical frailty across the broad spectrum of patients with cardiovascular …

Frailty is a clinical state in which there is an increase in an individual's vulnerability for
develo** increased dependency and/or mortality when exposed to a stressor. Frailty can …

OBJECTIVES: To assess the reliability, construct validity, and predictive (concurrent) validity
of the Tilburg Frailty Indicator (TFI), a self-report questionnaire for measuring frailty in older …

Frailty is one of the greatest challenges for healthcare professionals. The level of frailty
depends on several interrelated factors and can change over time while different …