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A brief clinical instrument to classify frailty in elderly people

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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 1999-01-16. It has received 802 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Activities of daily living.

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Frailty in Older Adults Evidence for a Phenotype

TL;DR: This study provides a potential standardized definition for frailty in community-dwelling older adults and offers concurrent and predictive validity for the definition, and finds that there is an intermediate stage identifying those at high risk of frailty.
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A global clinical measure of fitness and frailty in elderly people

TL;DR: The ability of the Clinical Frailty Scale to predict death or need for institutional care, and correlated the results with those obtained from other established tools are determined.
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Prevalence of Frailty in Community-Dwelling Older Persons: A Systematic Review

TL;DR: To systematically compare and pool the prevalence of frailty, including prefrailty, reported in community‐dwelling older people overall and according to sex, age, and definition ofFrailty used.
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Frailty in Relation to the Accumulation of Deficits

TL;DR: Although based on a simple count, the frailty index shows several interesting properties, including a characteristic rate of accumulation, a submaximal limit, and characteristic changes with age in its distribution.
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Multidimensional Functional Assessment of Older Adults: The Duke Older Americans Resources and Services Procedures

TL;DR: The Validity and Reliability of the OARS Multidimensional Functional Assessment Questionnaire is studied to determine whether the questionnaire can be trusted to provide accurate information about the status of services provided in the community.
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Frailty in elderly people: an evolving concept.

TL;DR: Existing definitions of frailty are reviewed and an alternative working definition is examined to discover if this understanding offers any useful insights.
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Standardization of the diagnosis of dementia in the canadian study of health and aging

TL;DR: Computer algorithms demonstrated 98% concordance with DSM-III-R criteria for dementia and 92% with NINCDS-ADRADA (National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke and the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association) criteria for probable Alzheimer's disease.
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A Prospective Controlled Trial of a Geriatric Consultation Team in an Acute-care Hospital

TL;DR: The intervention was associated with improved 6-month survival, improved Barthel Index at 1 year, and a trend towards decreased reliance on institutional care (hospital or nursing home) during the year of follow-up, and the benefits occurred principally in patients who were discharged to a nursing home.
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