Frailty as a predictor of mortality in older adults within 5 years of psychiatric admission.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:Older adults with psychiatric disorders have a substantially lower life expectancy than age-matched controls. Knowledge of risk factors may lead to targeting treatment and interventions to reduce this gap in life expectancy. In this study, we investigated whether frailty independently predicts mortality in older patients following an acute admission to a geriatric psychiatry hospital. METHODS:Clinical cohort study with a 5-year follow-up of 120 older patients admitted to a psychiatric hospital between February 2009 and September 2010. On admission, we assessed frailty with a frailty index (FI). We applied Cox regression analyses with time to death as the dependent variable, to examine whether the FI was a predictor for mortality, adjusted for age, sex, level of education, multim

SUBMITTER: Benraad CEM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7317407 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature