The assessment of sarcopenia and the frailty phenotype in the outpatient care of older people: implementation and typical values obtained from the Newcastle SarcScreen project.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Sarcopenia and the frailty phenotype both indicate older adults at risk of adverse health outcomes and yet are not widely assessed in practice. We developed the Newcastle SarcScreen to enable assessment of these two ageing syndromes during clinical care. In the setting of our Older People's Medicine Day Unit, our aims were to describe the implementation of the SarcScreen and to examine the typical values obtained.

Methods

The SarcScreen comprised height, weight, questions (three on the Fried frailty phenotype and five on the SARC-F questionnaire), grip strength and gait speed. We analysed data from 552 patients completing the SarcScreen. We expressed grip strength as Z-scores (number of standard deviations above the mean expected for a patient's age and sex).

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SUBMITTER: Dodds RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8995690 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature