Frail-VIG index: a concise frailty evaluation tool for rapid geriatric assessment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Demographic changes have led to an increase in the number of elderly frail persons and, consequently, systematic geriatric assessment is more important than ever. Frailty Indexes (FI) may be particularly useful to discriminate between various degrees of frailty but are not routinely assessed due, at least in part, to the large number of deficits assessed (from 30 to 70). Therefore, we have developed a new, more concise FI for rapid geriatric assessment (RGA)-the Frail-VIG index ("VIG" is the Spanish/Catalan abbreviation for Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment), which contains 22 simple questions that assess 25 different deficits. Here we describe this FI and report its ability to predict mortality at 24 months.

Methods

Prospective, observational, longitudinal study

SUBMITTER: Amblas-Novellas J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5787254 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature