Background: Demographic ageing is a population health success story but poses
unprecedented policy challenges in the 21st century. Policymakers must prepare health …

Background Social distancing and similar measures in response to the coronavirus disease
2019 pandemic have greatly increased loneliness and social isolation among older adults …

Background The label 'faller'and the associated stigma may reduce healthcare-seeking
behaviours. However, falls are not inevitably progressive and many drivers are modifiable …

Aim Fried's frailty phenotype (FP) is defined by exhaustion (EX), unexplained weight loss
(WL), weakness (WK), slowness (SL) and low physical activity (LA). Three or more …

Background: There is increasing policy interest in the consideration of frailty measures
(rather than chronological age alone) to inform more equitable allocation of health and …

Most developed countries provide publicly-financed insurance for many health services for
their populations although there is considerable variation across countries in the types of …

The quantification of biological age in humans is an important scientific endeavor in the face
of ageing populations. The frailty index (FI) methodology is based on the accumulation of …

Purpose We compared the ability of four frailty identification tools (frailty phenotype: FP;
FRAIL scale; 32-item Frailty Index: FI; and Clinical Frailty Scale: CFS) to predict 8-year …

Background Pain is a prevalent, debilitating condition among older adults. Much evidence
on this topic comes from cohort studies, which may be affected by attrition and measurement …

Abstract Background 'Wish to Die'(WTD) involves thoughts of or wishes for one's own death
or that one would be better off dead. Objective To examine the prevalence, longitudinal …