Frailty Versus Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths and Injuries Initiative Fall Risk Score: Ability to Predict Future Falls.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To compare the ability of frailty status to predict fall risk with that of community fall risk screening tools.

Design

Analysis of cross-sectional and longitudinal data from NHATS.

Setting

National Health and Aging Trend Study (NHATS) 2011-2015.

Participants

Individuals aged 65 and older (N = 7,392).

Measurements

Fall risk was defined according to the Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths and Injuries (STEADI) initiative. Frailty was defined as exhaustion, weight loss, low activity, slow gait speed, and weak grip strength. Robust was defined as meeting 0 criteria, prefrailty as 1 or 2 criteria, and frailty as 3 or more criteria. Falls were self-reported and ascertained using NHATS subsequent rounds (2012-2015). We compared the ability of frailty

SUBMITTER: Crow RS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5933526 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature