Novel Frailty Screening Questionnaire (FSQ) Predicts 8-year Mortality in Older Adults in China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although frailty status greatly impacts health care in countries with rapidly aging populations, little is known about the frailty status in Chinese older adults.

Objectives

Given the increased health care needs associated with frailty, we sought to develop an easily applied self-report screening tool based on four of the syndromic frailty components and sought to validate it in a population of older adults in China.

Design

Prospective epidemiological cohort study.

Setting

Community-dwelling residents living in Beijing, China.

Participants

1724 community-dwelling adults aged ≥60 years in 2004 with an 8-year follow up.

Measurements

We developed a simple self-report frailty screening tool-the Frailty Screening Questionnaire (FSQ)-based on

SUBMITTER: Ma L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12275646 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature