The WHO integrated care for older people (ICOPE) Guidelines on community-level interventions to manage declines in intrinsic capacity providing guidance on evidence-based interventions to manage declines in intrinsic capacity in older age is now available. They cover...
Prof. Bruno Vellas Event: ICFSR 2014, Barcelona, Spain April 14, 2014 Length: 28 min During the International Conference on Frailty & Sarcopenia Research in Barcelona, listen to Prof. Bruno Vellas as he sets the scene on Frailty....
Implementing frailty into clinical practice: we cannot wait Vellas B, Cestac P, Moley JE J Nutr Health Aging 2012;16:599-600. Publication date: August 1, 2012 Summary Since the 1980s, geriatric medicine has expanded to the point that there are acute care units, mobile...
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Identification of frail patients before their vulnerability is made evident by the onset of a major clinical event is one of the major challenges in implementing frailty into clinical practice. General practitioners play a key role in this context. Due to an often...
John E. Morley, MB, BCh Division of Geriatric Medicine and Endocrinology Saint Louis University School of Medicine St. Louis, Missouri, USA In 2013 a consensus meeting of 6 societies (IAGG, EUGMS, AMDA, IANA, AFAR and SCWD) called for screening by health professionals...
Frailty has been described as a multisystem impairment responsible for a state of increased vulnerability to endogenous and exogenous stressors. This syndrome may represent the first step towards clinically relevant functional disability and has been shown to be...
Mission Frailty.net is an international educational resource that aims to help geriatricians, primary care physicians and other health care professionals involved in the care of older persons implement frailty into clinical practice. This educational website is...
Vellas B, Balardy L, Gillette-Guyonnet S, et al. J Nutr Health Aging 2013;17:629-31 Publication date: July 1, 2013 Summary Identification of frail patients before their vulnerability is made evident by the onset of a major clinical event is one of the major challenges...
Gait speed: a new “vital sign” for older persons in primary care Subra J, Rougé-Bugeat M-E, Balardy L, et al. J Frailty Aging 2012;1:90-91. Publication date: June 1, 2012 Summary The identification of frailty in clinical practice needs to be promoted, and...
