Assessing Risk for Adverse Outcomes in Older Adults: The Need to Include Both Physical Frailty and Cognition.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Physical frailty is a powerful tool for identifying nondisabled individuals at high risk of adverse outcomes. The extent to which cognitive impairment in those without dementia adds value to physical frailty in detecting high-risk individuals remains unclear.

Objectives

To estimate the effects of combining physical frailty and cognitive impairment without dementia (CIND) on the risk of basic activities of daily living (ADL) dependence and death over 8 years.

Design

Prospective cohort study.

Setting

The Health and Retirement Study (HRS).

Participants

A total of 7338 community-dwelling people, 65 years or older, without dementia and ADL dependence at baseline (2006-2008). Follow-up assessments occurred every 2 years until 2014.

Measurements</

SUBMITTER: Aliberti MJR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6510389 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature