Diseases AND or IN frailty, an important conceptual difference

Frailty is a clinical state that increases an individual's vulnerability. It is an outcome marker in several medical scenarios. However, there is a lack of recognition in the medical field. Frailty should not be regarded as a condition superimposed to disease. Contrarily, it should be noticed a...

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Published inExperimental gerontology Vol. 98; pp. 184 - 185
Main Authors Borda, Miguel Germán, Patino-Hernandez, Daniela
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Elsevier Inc 01.11.2017
Subjects
Age Factors
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Aging
Consensus
Frail Elderly
Frailty
Frailty - classification
Frailty - diagnosis
Frailty - therapy
Geriatric Assessment
Geriatrician
Health Status Indicators
Humans
Prognosis
Terminology as Topic
Frailty
Geriatrician
Frail elderly
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Summary:Frailty is a clinical state that increases an individual's vulnerability. It is an outcome marker in several medical scenarios. However, there is a lack of recognition in the medical field. Frailty should not be regarded as a condition superimposed to disease. Contrarily, it should be noticed as a state frequently found either as a component of diseases themselves or as their outcome. The work of a geriatrician is focused on the best possible approximation to the medical and psychosocial issues that an elder has, and must join the treatment team when the person has a considerable number of conditions that makes him/her frail. Traditionally medicine has focused mainly on illnesses, but the state of frailty requires a change of mindset, through a multidimensional person centered approach.
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ISSN:0531-5565
1873-6815
DOI:10.1016/j.exger.2017.08.031