Is living alone a risk factor of frailty? A systematic review and meta-analysis

G Kojima, Y Taniguchi, A Kitamura, Y Fujiwara - Ageing research reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Objectives To examine the association of living alone with frailty in cross-sectional and
longitudinal studies by a systematic review and meta-analysis. Design Systematic review …

Body mass index and risk of frailty in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

S Amiri, S Behnezhad, J Hasani - Obesity Medicine, 2020 - Elsevier
Background and objective Increasing age has unintended physical consequences, and
Body Mass Index (BMI) can be related to various aspects of health in older people. Frailty as …

FRAIL scale: Predictive validity and diagnostic test accuracy

MQ Thompson, O Theou, GR Tucker… - … Journal on Ageing, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To examine the predictive validity of the FRAIL scale for mortality, and diagnostic
test accuracy (DTA) against the frailty phenotype (FP). Measurement Frailty was measured …

Commonly used screening instruments to identify frailty among community-dwelling older people in a general practice (primary care) setting: a study of diagnostic test …

RC Ambagtsheer, R Visvanathan, E Dent… - The Journals of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background Rapid frailty screening remains problematic in primary care. The diagnostic test
accuracy (DTA) of several screening instruments has not been sufficiently established. We …

Prevalence and associated factors of frailty in community-dwelling older adults in Indonesia, 2014–2015

S Pengpid, K Peltzer - … journal of environmental research and public …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Objective: The investigation aims to study the prevalence and correlates of frailty in a
national community-dwelling sample of older Indonesians. Methods: Participants were 2630 …

Relationships between social, physical, and psychological factors in older persons: frailty as an outcome in network analysis

DE da Cunha Leme, EV da Costa Alves… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objective Frailty is a multifactorial syndrome characterized by social, physical, and
psychological stressors. Network analysis is a graphical statistical technique that can …

Síndrome de fragilidad y factores asociados en adulto mayor indígena de Nariño, Colombia

YV Paredes-Arturo, DC Aguirre-Acevedo… - Medicina de Familia …, 2020 - Elsevier
Introducción La identificación de adultos mayores con prefragilidad y síndrome de fragilidad
es importante, debido a su asociación con el desarrollo de discapacidad, problema …

Medication‐related criteria in frailty assessment tools: A narrative review

ME Dearing, SK Bowles, JE Isenor… - … Journal on Ageing, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To review medication‐related criteria within validated frailty tools. Methods
Narrative review of validated frailty assessment tools. Frailty tools were identified from …