The Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) was introduced in the second clinical examination of the Canadian Study of Health and Aging (CSHA) as a way to summarize the overall level of fitness or frailty of an ...

Frailty is a complex syndrome that may be under-recognized yet can complicate the clinical trajectory of neurologic diseases like dementia, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, and stroke.

Most older adults prioritize retaining the ability to bathe, dress, walk, and perform household tasks independently as they ...

Researchers have successfully improved the Electronic Frailty Index (eFI)—a tool that uses data to predict older patients' ...

A new study links changes in frailty, a measure of decreased physiological capacity that leads to fatigue, slow walking, ...

New research highlights that frailty in patients with RA — young and old — raises infection risk and complicates treatment, ...

GPs can more accurately identify older people’s frailty and intervene earlier as a result of NIHR-funded research led by the ...

A new tool will enable GPs to predict older patients' risks of living with frailty and intervene at an earlier stage ...

a state of physical and mental frailty, which is a predictor of dementia. The powers of attention and memory were found to have improved in elderly people who used the device utilizing finger ...

The Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) was introduced in the second clinical examination of the Canadian Study of Health and Aging (CSHA) as a way to summarize the overall level of fitness or frailty of an ...