Chek Hooi Wong, Deborah Weiss, Nadia Sourial, Sathya Karunananthan, Jacqueline M. Quail, Christina Wolfson, Howard Bergman
Background and aims: The term frailty is used to describe older persons at high
risk for adverse health outcomes. In 2001, Fried et al. proposed a now widely
cited definition which suggests that frailty is a clinical entity related to,
but distinct from, ADL disability and comorbidity. Frailty status was assessed
based on the presence of any three of the following five characteristics:
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