Perspectives of older adults, caregivers, healthcare providers on frailty screening in primary care: a systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Screening is often recommended as a first step in frailty management. Many guidelines call to implicate frailty screening into practice in the primary care setting. However, few countries or organizations implement it. Understanding and clarifying the stakeholders' views and issues faced by the implementation is essential to the successful implementation of frailty screening. However, the systematic review on stakeholders' views of frailty screening in primary care is decidedly limited. Our objective was to explore the perspective of older adults, caregivers, and healthcare providers on frailty screening and determine the enablers and barriers to implementing frailty screening in primary care.

Methods

A systematic search of six databases and other resources was co

SUBMITTER: Nan J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9166584 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature