Frailty is an emerging global health burden, with major implications for clinical practice and
public health. The prevalence of frailty is expected to rise alongside rapid growth in the …

Background Frailty is a key determinant of health status and outcomes of health care
interventions in older adults that is not readily measured in Medicare data. This study aimed …

Considering the increasing burden and serious consequences of frailty in aging
populations, there is increasing interest in measuring frailty in health care databases for …

Objective to investigate how frailty and frailty symptoms affect healthcare costs in older age
longitudinally. Methods data were gathered from a prospective cohort study in Saarland …

Background routine frailty identification and management is national policy in England, but
there remains a lack of evidence on the impact of frailty on healthcare resource use. We …

Frailty is a geriatric syndrome characterised by a vulnerability status associated with
declining function of multiple physiological systems and loss of physiological reserves. Two …

Background Physical frailty is a common characteristic of older people with the ageing
process and has been viewed as a major public health issue. The longitudinal association …

Background: Frailty is one of the most critical age-related conditions in older adults. It is often
recognized as a syndrome of physiological decline in late life, characterized by a marked …

Muscle weakness and associated diseases are likely to place a considerable economic
burden on government health care expenditure. Therefore, our aim for this study was to …

Objectives Body composition changes with aging can increase rates of obesity, frailty and
impact function. Measuring adiposity using body fat (% BF) or central adiposity using waist …