A Comparison of Four Frailty Models

• Published in: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) Vol. 62; no. 4; pp. 721 - 726
• Main Authors: Malmstrom, Theodore K., Miller, Douglas K., Morley, John E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, NJ Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.04.2014; Wiley-Blackwell; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Activities of Daily Living; ADLs; African American; African Americans; Aged; Biological and medical sciences; Comparative studies; Disability; Disability Evaluation; Disabled Persons - statistics & numerical data; Epidemiology; Female; Frail Elderly - statistics & numerical data; Frailty; General aspects; Geriatric Assessment - methods; Humans; IADLs; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Miscellaneous; Missouri - epidemiology; Mobility Limitation; Mortality; Prognosis; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; ROC Curve; Surveys and Questionnaires; Survival Rate - trends; Missouri; USA, Missouri; Human; Mortality; Epidemiology; Ethnic group; IADLs; frailty; Gerontology; ADLs; Frailty in elderly; Models; Elderly; Comparative study; African American; Geriatrics; mortality

Objectives To determine how well the interview‐based, clinic‐friendly International Academy of Nutrition and Aging (FRAIL) frailty scale predicts future disability and mortality in the African American Health (AAH) cohort compared with the clinic‐friendly Study of Osteoporotic Fractures (SOF) frailt...