Management of frailty: opportunities, challenges, and future directions

E Dent, FC Martin, H Bergman, J Woo… - The Lancet, 2019 - thelancet.com
Frailty is a complex age-related clinical condition characterised by a decline in physiological
capacity across several organ systems, with a resultant increased susceptibility to stressors …

A scoping review for usage of telerehabilitation among older adults with mild cognitive impairment or cognitive frailty

NH Md Fadzil, S Shahar, R Rajikan, DKA Singh… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Older adults are vulnerable towards cognitive frailty that can lead to adverse health
outcomes and telerehabilitation appears to be a potential platform to reverse cognitive frailty …

Interventions to prevent, delay or reverse frailty in older people: a journey towards clinical guidelines

M Marcucci, S Damanti, F Germini, J Apostolo… - BMC medicine, 2019 - Springer
Background Age-related frailty is a multidimensional dynamic condition associated with
adverse patient outcomes and high costs for health systems. Several interventions have …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding frailty: a qualitative study of European healthcare policy-makers' approaches to frailty screening and management

H Gwyther, R Shaw, EAJ Dauden, B D'Avanzo… - BMJ open, 2018 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective To elicit European healthcare policy-makers' views, understanding and attitudes
about the implementation of frailty screening and management strategies and responses to …

Older adults' understandings and perspectives on frailty in community and residential aged care: an interpretive description

M Archibald, M Lawless, RC Ambagtsheer, A Kitson - BMJ open, 2020 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives Despite growing interest in frailty as a significant public health challenge,
comparatively little is known about how older adults perceive and experience frailty, limiting …

Supporting frail older people with depression and anxiety: a qualitative study

R Frost, P Nair, S Aw, RL Gould, K Kharicha… - Aging & mental …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives Depression and anxiety are common in later life, particularly when people are
frail. This leads to reduced quality of life, faster decline in physical health and increased …

Frailty: an in-depth qualitative study exploring the views of community care staff

JF Coker, ME Martin, RM Simpson, L Lafortune - BMC geriatrics, 2019 - Springer
Background Frailty is seen across various health and social care settings. However, little is
known about how healthcare professionals, particularly those who provide care for older …

Interventions to improve medicines optimisation in older people with frailty in primary care: a systematic review

L Faulkner, CM Hughes, HE Barry - International Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Objectives To identify studies that delivered an intervention to frail older people to improve
medicines optimisation; identify the outcomes reported in these studies; and assess the …

A realist review to understand the efficacy and outcomes of interventions designed to minimise, reverse or prevent the progression of frailty

H Gwyther, E Bobrowicz-Campos… - Health Psychology …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Interventions to minimise, reverse or prevent the progression of frailty in older adults
represent a potentially viable route to improving quality of life and care needs in older adults …

Preventing frailty in older people: An exploration of primary care professionals' experiences

P Obbia, C Graham, FJR Duffy… - International journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background An increasing number of the ageing population worldwide is at risk of becoming
frail and incapacitated. This has the potential to impact not only on the well‐being of …