Discordance in Frailty Measures in Old Community Dwelling People with Multimorbidity - A Cross-Sectional Study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Assessment of frailty is a key method to identify older people in need of holistic care. However, agreement between different frailty instrument varies. Thus, groups classified as frail by different instruments are not completely overlapping. This study evaluated differences in sociodemographic factors, cognition, functional status, and quality of life between older persons with multimorbidity who were discordantly classified by five different frailty instruments, with focus on the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) and Fried's Frailty Phenotype (FP).

Participants and methods

This was a cross-sectional study in a community-dwelling setting. Inclusion criteria were as follows: ≥75 years old, ≥3 visits to the emergency department the past 18 months, and ≥3 diagnoses accordin

SUBMITTER: Lindh Mazya A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10543411 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature