Browsing by Subject "frailty"
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Addressing the complexity of medication use in older people with intellectual disability
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Pharmacy & Pharma. Sciences. Discipline of Pharmacy, 2019)Background: People with intellectual disabilities (ID) experience high levels of polypharmacy and medication burden. Many of the most commonly occurring medical conditions in older adults with ID are treated with medications ... -
Age and frailty are independently associated with increased COVID-19 mortality and increased care needs in survivors: results of an international multi-centre study
(2021)Introduction:Increased mortality has been demonstrated in older adults with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), butthe effect of frailty has been unclear.Methods:This multi-centre cohort study involved patients aged 18 ... -
Clinical frailty and functional trajectories in hospitalized older adults: a retrospective observational study
(2017)Frailty predicts inpatient mortality and length of stay, but its link to functional trajectories is under-researched. Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK, collects the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) within 72 h of admission ... -
Clinical frailty is independently associated with non-prescription of anticoagulants in older patients with atrial fibrillation
(2017)Abstract Aim Anticoagulation is underused in older patients with atrial fibrillation(AF). Scoring systems such as CHA2DS2-VASc and HAS-BLED are recommended to guide clinicians in anticoagulation decisions, ... -
The Clinical Frailty Scale predicts inpatient mortality in older hospitalised patients with idiopathic Parkinson s disease
(2018)Parkinson’s disease and frailty are both common conditions affecting older people. Little is known regarding the association of the Clinical Frailty Scale with hospital outcomes in idiopathic Parkinson’s disease patients ... -
The development, implementation and evaluation of frailty assessment in oncology
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Radiation Therapy, 2020)Over the last number of decades, treatment outcomes from cancer care have improved dramatically. However, these improvements have mostly benefitted younger patients, or relatively robust older adults, rather than the entire ... -
Frail-VIG index: a concise frailty evaluation tool for rapid geriatric assessment
(2018)Background:Demographic changes have led to an increase in the number of elderly frail persons and, consequently,systematic geriatric assessment is more important than ever. Frailty Indexes (FI) may be particularly useful ... -
New Horizons in Frailty: the contingent, the existential and the clinical
(2019)In the past decade, frailty research has focused on refinement of biomedical tools and operationalisations, potentially introducing a reductionist approach. This article suggests that a new horizon in frailty lies in a ...