An international collaboration of researchers have successfully adapted a Japanese oral health screening tool for use among ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center have found evidence of a physiologic basis for the frailty often observed in geriatric patients. Frailty exacts an enormous toll on the health and ...

Leisurely walking could lower a women’s stone risk. Frailty should be strongly considered before pursuing sling surgery in older women, according to investigators. Frailty may increase the risk for ...

The primary endpoint included improvement in any of the five frailty phenotype criteria, such as unintentional weight loss or exhaustion, or a one-point increase in the Short Physical Performance ...

Credit: Getty Images Nurse practitioners call for routine assessment for geriatric syndromes, including screening for frailty, cognitive impairment, and malnutrition. As patients live longer, it ...

Older Americans who live in disadvantaged counties have a higher incidence of frailty, probable dementia and activities of daily life disability compared to their nondisadvantaged peers, a new study ...

Although older patients with ATTR-CA were found to have a high prevalence of frailty, they were considered independent based on ADL scores, a potentially—and seriously misleading—finding. Little ...