The role of illness acuity on the association between frailty and mortality in emergency department patients referred to internal medicine

MH Pulok, O Theou, AM van der Valk… - Age and …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background we investigated whether two frailty tools predicted mortality among emergency
department (ED) patients referred to internal medicine and how the level of illness acuity …

[HTML][HTML] Frailty assessment and acute frailty service provision in the UK: results of a national 'day of care'survey

T Knight, C Atkin, FC Martin, C Subbe, M Holland… - BMC geriatrics, 2022 - Springer
Background The incorporation of acute frailty services into the acute care pathway is
increasingly common. The prevalence and impact of acute frailty services in the UK are …

Rationing care in COVID-19: if we must do it, can we do better?

K Rockwood - Age and Ageing, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a proposal for frailty to be used as a rationing criterion.
This commentary suggests circumstances under which that is defensible: in the face of lack …

Whether from a position of strength or weakness, geriatric medicine has work to do to drive up standards in health care for older people

AL Gordon, F Martin, S Mistry, RH Harwood… - Age and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Recently, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published an editorial
describing geriatric medicine in the USA as in decline, evidenced by falling numbers of …

Delaying and reversing frailty and building resilience: developing and launching an optimum intervention for older adults in primary care

J Travers - 2022 - researchrepository.ucd.ie
Background: Frailty is a vulnerability to external stressors that increases the risks of illness,
dependency and mortality, while resilience is the ability to withstand stressors. Evidence for …