Frail Elderly Concept

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• A Canadian qualitative study exploring the diversity of the experience of family caregivers of older adults with multiple chronic conditions using a social location perspective  Journal Articles
• A comparison of very old patients admitted to intensive care unit after acute versus elective surgery or intervention  Journal Articles
• A rapid scoping review of end-of-life conversations with frail older adults in Canada  Journal Articles
• A realist review to understand the efficacy and outcomes of interventions designed to minimise, reverse or prevent the progression of frailty  Journal Articles
• A scoping review of the proximal humerus fracture literature  Journal Articles
• Aberrant Mitochondrial Homeostasis in the Skeletal Muscle of Sedentary Older Adults  Journal Articles
• Accumulation of Deficits as a Key Risk Factor for Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality: A Pooled Analysis of 154 000 Individuals  Journal Articles
• Ageing and aged care in the People's Republic of China: national and local issues and perspectives  Journal Articles
• Aging, frailty and age-related diseases  Journal Articles
• Alterations to the Frequency and Function of Peripheral Blood Monocytes and Associations with Chronic Disease in the Advanced-Age, Frail Elderly  Journal Articles
• An overview of osteoporosis and frailty in the elderly  Journal Articles
• Anti-pneumococcal deficits of monocyte-derived macrophages from the advanced-age, frail elderly and related impairments in PI3K-AKT signaling  Journal Articles
• Applying the geriatric 5Ms in critical care: the ICU-5Ms  Journal Articles
• Assessment of frailty in community-dwelling older adults residents in the Lazio region (Italy): A model to plan regional community-based services  Journal Articles
• Assessments of Heart Failure and Frailty-Related Health Instability Provide Complementary and Useful Information for Home-Care Planning and Prognosis  Journal Articles
• Association between frailty, chronic conditions and socioeconomic status in community-dwelling older adults attending primary care: a cross-sectional study using practice-based research network data  Journal Articles
• Association of Frailty With Clinical Outcomes in Patients Receiving Primary Prevention Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators: A Prospective Cohort Study.  Journal Articles
• Barriers and facilitators to optimal supportive end-of-life palliative care in long-term care facilities: a qualitative descriptive study of community-based and specialist palliative care physicians’ experiences, perceptions and perspectives  Journal Articles
• Bayesian cure rate models induced by frailty in survival analysis  Journal Articles
• Biomedicalization of end-of-life conversations with medically frail older adults - Malleable and senescent bodies  Journal Articles
• Building bridges for innovation in ageing: Synergies between action groups of the EIP on AHA  Journal Articles
• COMPARISON OF FRAILTY SCORES IN NEWLY DIAGNOSED PATIENTS WITH MULTIPLE MYELOMA: A REVIEW  Journal Articles
• COVID-19 excess mortality among long-term care residents in Ontario, Canada  Journal Articles
• Care recipients’ physical frailty is independently associated with subjective burden in informal caregivers in the community setting: a cross-sectional study  Journal Articles
• Circulating Muramyl Dipeptide Is Negatively Associated with Interleukin-10 in the Frail Elderly  Journal Articles
• Circulating TNF and mitochondrial DNA are major determinants of neutrophil phenotype in the advanced-age, frail elderly  Journal Articles
• Comparison between Frailty Index of Deficit Accumulation and Phenotypic Model to Predict Risk of Falls: Data from the Global Longitudinal Study of Osteoporosis in Women (GLOW) Hamilton Cohort  Journal Articles
• Comparison between frailty index of deficit accumulation and fracture risk assessment tool (FRAX) in prediction of risk of fractures  Journal Articles
• Comparison of Frailty Screening Instruments in the Emergency Department  Journal Articles
• Conceptualizations of frailty in relation to older adults  Journal Articles
• Core requirements of frailty screening in the emergency department: an international Delphi consensus study  Journal Articles
• Cost-Consequence Analysis of Deprescribing to Optimize Health Outcomes for Frail Older People: A Within-Trial Analysis  Journal Articles
• Defining Aging Phenotypes and Related Outcomes: Clues to Recognize Frailty in Hospitalized Older Patients  Journal Articles
• Delayed discharge and frailty, delirium and functional decline  Journal Articles
• Deprescribing Anticholinergic and Sedative Drugs to Reduce Polypharmacy in Frail Older Adults Living in the Community: A Randomized Controlled Trial  Journal Articles
• Deprescribing anticholinergic and sedative medicines: protocol for a Feasibility Trial (DEFEAT-polypharmacy) in residential aged care facilities  Journal Articles
• Deprescribing to optimise health outcomes for frail older people: a double-blind placebo-controlled randomised controlled trial—outcomes of the Opti-med study  Journal Articles
• Deprescribing to reduce polypharmacy: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial assessing deprescribing of anticholinergic and sedative drugs in a cohort of frail older people living in the community  Journal Articles
• Derivation and Validation of the Detection of Indicators and Vulnerabilities for Emergency Room Trips Scale for Classifying the Risk of Emergency Department Use in Frail Community‐Dwelling Older Adults  Journal Articles
• Development and validation of the Fracture Risk Scale (FRS) that predicts fracture over a 1-year time period in institutionalised frail older people living in Canada: an electronic record-linked longitudinal cohort study  Journal Articles
• Development of a Medicare Health Outcomes Survey Deficit-Accumulation Frailty Index and Its Application to Older Patients With Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma  Journal Articles
• Development of a periodic health examination form for the frail elderly in long-term care.  Journal Articles
• Development of an easy prognostic score for frailty outcomes in the aged  Journal Articles
• Diabetes Management and Education in Older Adults: The Development of a National Consensus of Key Research Priorities  Journal Articles
• Diabetes Management in Long-Term Care: An Exploratory Study of the Current Practices and Processes to Managing Frail Elderly Persons with Type 2 Diabetes  Journal Articles
• Differences in mortality in critically ill elderly patients during the second COVID-19 surge in Europe  Journal Articles
• Digoxin prescribing for heart failure in elderly residents of long-term care facilities.  Journal Articles
• Disability and Frailty Among Elderly Canadians: A Comparison of Six Surveys  Journal Articles
• Dynamic frailty risk assessment among older adults with multiple myeloma: A population-based cohort study  Journal Articles
• Dynamics and Heterogeneity in the Process of Human Frailty and Aging: Evidence From the U.S. Older Adult Population  Journal Articles
• Editorial: Hidden Costs and Invisible Contributions in Family Caregiving: An Introduction  Journal Articles
• Effect of preventive home visits by a nurse on the outcomes of frail elderly people in the community: a randomized controlled trial.  Conferences
• Effectiveness and Safety of Rivaroxaban Versus Warfarin in Frail Patients with Venous Thromboembolism  Journal Articles
• Effectiveness of the interventions in preventing the progression of pre-frailty and frailty in older adults: a systematic review protocol.  Journal Articles
• Efficiency of Institutional Long Term Care and Annual Demands for Placement  Journal Articles
• Elderly recipients of home nursing services: pain, disability and functional competence  Journal Articles
• Emergency Department Boarding Time Is Associated with Functional Decline in Older Adults Six Months Post Discharge.  Journal Articles
• Examining three frailty conceptualizations in their ability to predict negative outcomes for home-care clients  Journal Articles
• Experiences of Older Adults in Transition from Hospital to Community  Journal Articles
• Exploring the perspectives of older adults who are pre-frail and frail to identify interventions to reduce sedentary behaviour and improve mobility: a thematic content analysis  Journal Articles
• FRAIL-AF Study: More Bleeding With DOACs Compared With VKAs in Patients With Frailty?  Journal Articles
• Factors associated with virtual care access in older adults: a cross-sectional study  Journal Articles
• Factors partitioning physical frailty in people aging with HIV: A classification and regression tree approach  Journal Articles
• Fall Efficacy Scale - International (FES-I)  Journal Articles
• Fall Prevention Program Characteristics and Experiences of Older Adults and Program Providers in Canada: A Thematic Content Analysis  Journal Articles
• Feasibility Study of a Systematic Approach for Discontinuation of Multiple Medications in Older Adults  Journal Articles
• Frail older adults with minor fractures show lower health-related quality of life (SF-12) scores up to six months following emergency department discharge  Journal Articles
• Frailty Is Inversely Related to Age at Menopause and Elevated in Women Who Have Had a Hysterectomy: An Analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging  Journal Articles
• Frailty and Bleeding in Older Adults Undergoing TAVR or SAVR  Journal Articles
• Frailty and Fracture, Disability, and Falls: A Multiple Country Study From the Global Longitudinal Study of Osteoporosis in Women  Journal Articles
• Frailty and Life-Space Mobility: Implications for Clinical Practice and Research  Journal Articles
• Frailty and Risk of Fractures in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes  Journal Articles
• Frailty and sarcopenia: definitions and outcome parameters  Journal Articles
• Frailty and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on community-living middle-aged and older adults: an analysis of data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)  Journal Articles
• Frailty differences across population characteristics associated with health inequality: a cross-sectional analysis of baseline data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)  Journal Articles
• Frailty in Older Adults Undergoing Aortic Valve Replacement  Journal Articles
• Frailty index of deficit accumulation and falls: data from the Global Longitudinal Study of Osteoporosis in Women (GLOW) Hamilton cohort  Journal Articles
• Frailty is crucial in FORECASTing outcomes in critical care  Journal Articles
• Frailty measures in multiple myeloma: evaluating the impact on outcomes and quality-of-life in clinical trials and real-world practice.  Journal Articles
• Frailty prevalence and efficient screening in primary care-based memory clinics  Journal Articles
• Frailty screening in older adults: is annual screening necessary in primary care?  Journal Articles
• Frailty, Outcomes, Recovery and Care Steps of Critically Ill Patients (FORECAST): a prospective, multi-centre, cohort study  Journal Articles
• Frailty: Identifying elderly patients at high risk of poor outcomes.  Journal Articles
• From Cruddiness to Catastrophe: COVID-19 and Long-term Care in Ontario  Journal Articles
• Future Perspectives: The Need for Large Clinical Trials  Journal Articles
• Geriatric Syndromes Predict Postdischarge Outcomes Among Older Emergency Department Patients: Findings From the interRAI Multinational Emergency Department Study  Journal Articles
• Geriatrics, interprofessional practice, and interorganizational collaboration: a knowledge-to-practice intervention for primary care teams.  Journal Articles
• Getting fit for hip and knee replacement: The Fit-Joints multimodal intervention for frail patients with osteoarthritis - a pilot randomized controlled trial.  Journal Articles
• Handgrip strength predicts length of stay and quality of life in and out of hospital  Journal Articles
• Health promotion for frail older home care clients  Journal Articles
• Hidden costs and invisible contributions in family caregiving: An introduction  Journal Articles
• Hong Kong and China in 1997  Journal Articles
• How Prefrail Older People Living Alone Perceive Information and Communications Technology and What They Would Ask a Robot for: Qualitative Study  Journal Articles
• How regional versus global thresholds for physical activity and grip strength influence physical frailty prevalence and mortality estimates in PURE: a prospective multinational cohort study of community-dwelling adults  Journal Articles
• IMPROVING END-OF-LIFE CARE AND ADVANCE CARE PLANNING FOR FRAIL OLDER ADULTS IN CANADA  Journal Articles
• Identification of older adults with frailty in the Emergency Department using a frailty index: results from a multinational study  Journal Articles
• Identifying frailty in primary care: A systematic review  Journal Articles
• Immunosenescence in the nursing home elderly  Journal Articles
• Impact of multimorbidity and frailty on adverse outcomes among older delayed discharge patients: Implications for healthcare policy  Journal Articles
• Inappropriate Accommodation in Communication to Elders: Inferences about Nonverbal Correlates  Journal Articles
• Interaction Between Frailty and Access Site in Older Adults Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement  Journal Articles
• Interventions for preventing, delaying the onset, or decreasing the burden of frailty: an overview of systematic reviews  Journal Articles
• Interventions that have potential to help older adults living with social frailty: a systematic scoping review  Journal Articles
• Interventions to prevent or reduce the level of frailty in community-dwelling older adults: a protocol for a scoping review of the literature and international policies  Journal Articles
• Interventions to prevent or reduce the level of frailty in community-dwelling older adults: a scoping review of the literature and international policies  Journal Articles
• Letters to the Editor  Journal Articles
• MEASURING THE EFFECT OF CARERS ON PATIENTS’ RISK OF ADVERSE HEALTHCARE OUTCOMES USING THE CAREGIVER NETWORK SCORE  Journal Articles
• Malnutrition and Mortality in Frail and Non-Frail Older Adults Undergoing Aortic Valve Replacement  Journal Articles
• Mapping context of sedentary behaviour in older adults who are prefrail and frail: an analysis of secondary outcomes from a longitudinal study (MAPS-B).  Journal Articles
• Mapping sedentary behaviour (MAPS-B) in winter and spring using wearable sensors, indoor positioning systems, and diaries in older adults who are pre-frail and frail: A feasibility longitudinal study  Journal Articles
• Measuring Frailty Can Help Emergency Departments Identify Independent Seniors at Risk of Functional Decline After Minor Injuries  Journal Articles
• Measuring frailty in clinical practice: a comparison of physical frailty assessment methods in a geriatric out-patient clinic  Journal Articles
• Measuring health status and decline in at-risk seniors residing in the community using the Health Utilities Index Mark 2  Journal Articles
• Measuring quality of life in the frail elderly  Journal Articles
• Medical characteristics of the oldest old: retrospective chart review of patients aged 85+ in an academic primary care centre  Journal Articles
• Modifying the Phenotypic Frailty Model in Predicting Risk of Major Osteoporotic Fracture in the Elderly  Journal Articles
• MoveStrong at home: a feasibility study of a model for remote delivery of functional strength and balance training combined with nutrition education for older pre-frail and frail adults  Journal Articles
• Nutrition and Physical Activity Clinical Practice Guidelines for Older Adults Living with Frailty  Journal Articles
• Oral Etoposide and Carboplatin  Journal Articles
• Out-of-pocket expenses related to aging in place for frail older people: a scoping review  Journal Articles
• Out-of-pocket expenses related to aging in place for frail older people: a scoping review protocol  Journal Articles
• PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN FRAILTY NETWORK WORKSHOP: IDENTIFYING BIOMARKERS OF FRAILTY TO SUPPORT FRAILTY RISK ASSESSMENT, DIAGNOSIS AND PROGNOSIS. TORONTO, JANUARY 15, 2018  Journal Articles
• Patient‐related factors independently impact overall survival in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes: an MDS‐CAN prospective study  Journal Articles
• Patterns and Health Effects of Caring for People With Dementia: The Impact of Changing Cognitive and Residential Status  Journal Articles
• Patterns of referral to interprofessional services among frail older adults presenting to emergency departments in Canada.  Journal Articles
• Perspectives of older adults, caregivers, and healthcare providers on frailty screening: a qualitative study  Journal Articles
• Phosphate is associated with frailty in older patients with chronic kidney disease not on dialysis  Journal Articles
• Physical frailty and survival time after the onset of functional disability: Is there a sex difference?  Journal Articles
• Polypharmacy: prevention and management  Journal Articles
• Post Hoc Analyses of a Randomized Controlled Trial for the Effect of Pharmacist Deprescribing Intervention on the Anticholinergic Burden in Frail Community-Dwelling Older Adults  Journal Articles
• Postoperative management considerations of the elderly patient undergoing orthopaedic surgery  Journal Articles
• Poverty and food insecurity of older adults living in social housing in Ontario: a cross-sectional study  Journal Articles
• Precarity in late life: rethinking dementia as a ‘frailed’ old age  Journal Articles
• Predicting Future Health Transitions Among Newly Admitted Nursing Home Residents With Heart Failure  Journal Articles
• Predicting heart failure mortality in frail seniors: Comparing the NYHA functional classification with the Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) 2.0  Journal Articles
• Predicting risk and outcomes for frail older adults: a protocol for an umbrella review of available frailty screening tools  Journal Articles
• Predicting risk and outcomes for frail older adults: an umbrella review of frailty screening tools  Journal Articles
• Prevalence and prognostic impact of physical frailty in interstitial lung disease: A prospective cohort study  Journal Articles
• Prevalence of Frailty in Patients Referred to the Kidney Transplant Waitlist  Journal Articles
• Prevalence of geriatric impairments and frailty categorization among real-world patients with multiple myeloma: a prospective cohort study (MFRAIL)  Journal Articles
• Proceedings from an International Virtual Townhall: Reflecting on the COVID-19 Pandemic: Themes from Long-Term Care  Journal Articles
• Protocol for a mixed methods feasibility and implementation study of a community-based integrated care model for home-dwelling older adults: The INSPIRE project  Journal Articles
• Recovery after critical illness in patients aged 80 years or older: a multi-center prospective observational cohort study  Journal Articles
• Reducing the Progression of Disability in Older Adults  Journal Articles
• Relationship between family caregiver burden and physical frailty in older adults without dementia: a systematic review  Journal Articles
• Review: Routine venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in hospitalized frail older patients has uncertain benefit  Journal Articles
• Risk factors for outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2 infection at retirement homes in Ontario, Canada: a population-level cohort study  Journal Articles
• Rural Geriatric Glue: A Nurse Practitioner–Led Model of Care for Enhancing Primary Care for Frail Older Adults within an Ecosystem Approach  Journal Articles
• Screening for frailty in primary care: Accuracy of gait speed and hand-grip strength.  Journal Articles
• Seniors at Risk: The Association between the Six-Month Use of Publicly Funded Home Support Services and Quality of Life and Use of Health Services for Older People  Journal Articles
• Should we give aspirins and statins to the elderly?  Journal Articles
• Single nuclei profiling identifies cell specific markers of skeletal muscle aging, frailty, and senescence  Journal Articles
• Standardization of the Continuing Care Activity Measure: A Multicenter Study to Assess Reliability, Validity, and Ability to Measure Change  Journal Articles
• Stronger together: learning from an interdisciplinary dementia, arts and well-being network (DA&WN)  Journal Articles
• Study of observed and self-reported HRQL in older frail adults found group-level congruence and individual-level differences  Journal Articles
• Supplement-based nutritional strategies to tackle frailty: A multifactorial, double-blind, randomized placebo-controlled trial  Journal Articles
• THE INFLUENCE OF INCOME ON THE EXPERIENCE OF INFORMAL CAREGIVING: POLICY IMPLICATIONS  Journal Articles
• Targeted Exercise Training to Optimize Leg Power, Leg Speed, and Mobility in Older Adults  Journal Articles
• The Association Between Frailty and a Nurse-Identified Need for Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Referral from the Emergency Department  Journal Articles
• The C5-75 Program: Meeting the Need for Efficient, Pragmatic Frailty Screening and Management in Primary Care  Journal Articles
• The Development of a Decision Tool for the Empiric Treatment of Suspected Urinary Tract Infection in Frail Older Adults: A Delphi Consensus Procedure  Journal Articles
• The Diagnostic Accuracy and Clinimetric Properties of Screening Instruments to Identify Frail Older Adults Attending Emergency Departments: A Protocol for a Mixed Methods Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis  Journal Articles
• The Drug Burden Index and Level of Frailty as Determinants of Healthcare Costs in a Cohort of Older Frail Adults in New Zealand  Journal Articles
• The Effect of Programs to Improve Oral Hygiene Outcomes for Older Residents in Long-Term Care: A Systematic Review  Journal Articles
• The Importance of Frailty in the Assessment of Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness Against Influenza-Related Hospitalization in Elderly People  Journal Articles
• The MoveStrong program for promoting balance and functional strength training and adequate protein intake in pre-frail older adults: A pilot randomized controlled trial  Journal Articles
• The PAUSE approach to practising in long-term care.  Journal Articles
• The association between preoperative modified frailty index and postoperative complications in Chinese elderly patients with hip fractures  Journal Articles
• The cumulative effect of frailty and cognition on mortality – results of a prospective cohort study  Journal Articles
• The impact of frailty on ICU and 30-day mortality and the level of care in very elderly patients (≥ 80 years)  Journal Articles
• The impact of frailty on survival in elderly intensive care patients with COVID-19: the COVIP study  Journal Articles
• The inter-rater reliability of the Risk Instrument for Screening in the Community  Journal Articles
• The older patient with heart failure: high risk for frailty and cognitive impairment  Journal Articles
• The prevalence and outcomes of frail older adults in clinical trials in multiple myeloma: A Systematic Review  Conferences
• The use of local anesthesia to perform lower limb revascularization in the fragile patient with critical limb ischemia.  Journal Articles
• Time-limited home-care reablement services for maintaining and improving the functional independence of older adults  Journal Articles
• Training for Muscle Power in Older Adults: Effects on Functional Abilities  Journal Articles
• Transplant-ineligible newly diagnosed multiple myeloma: Current and future approaches to clinical care: A Young International Society of Geriatric Oncology Review Paper  Journal Articles
• Treatment of elderly and frail myeloma patients.  Journal Articles
• T‐Cell Phenotypes Predictive of Frailty and Mortality in Elderly Nursing Home Residents  Journal Articles
• Understanding frailty: a qualitative study of European healthcare policy-makers’ approaches to frailty screening and management  Journal Articles
• Use of selective factor Xa inhibitors in special populations.  Journal Articles
• Validation of a one year fracture prediction tool for absolute hip fracture risk in long term care residents  Journal Articles
• Wellness in the Face of Frailty Among Older Adults in First Nations Communities  Journal Articles
• Yes, Frailty Matters: Time for Action  Journal Articles