Clinical validation of a frailty management mHealth tool in a cohort of community-dwelling older adults: the Geras Fit-Frailty App.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study describes the prototype testing and clinical validation of the Fit-Frailty App, a fully guided, interactive mobile health (mHealth) app to assess frailty and sarcopenia. This multi-dimensional tool is freely available on the App Store and considers medical history, physical performance, cognition, nutrition, daily function and psychosocial domains. To guide management, a total frailty score and clinical summary of underlying "risk flags" are provided. Our objectives were to examine usability, feasibility, criterion and construct validity.

Design

Cross-sectional SETTING: Outpatient geriatric medicine clinic PARTICIPANTS: Community-dwelling older adults, age 65 years or older METHODS: The primary outcome of the clinical validation study was criterion vali

SUBMITTER: Kennedy CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12766843 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature